CZECH REPUBLIC: ROMANY FAMILIES LEAVE CZECH TOWN.

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: December 2, 1999 | Copyright information

Twelve Romany families from Ceske Budejovice have left the town following last month's attack by skinheads on a group of Roma. A spokesman for the Romany regional organization told the daily "Lidove noviny" on 29 November t...

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