Across the world, Gypsies are hated, mistreated.

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: January 14, 1994| Author: Cargas, Harry James | Copyright information

Premier Vladmir Meciar of Slovakia is reported to have called his nation's Gypsies "socially unadaptable and mentally backward." Meciar thus reflects the attitude of many Europeans toward Gypsies, who are among the world's most unrepresented people. There is no Gypsy seat of government to speak for persecuted Gypsies (who are more appropriately called Romany).

For more than 10 countries Romanies have been the targets of fear, hatred, contempt, enslavement, expulsion and,...

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