The policemen in Brazil have been terrorizing, arresting and killing the Roma for weeks, but this shocking information is still not a topic of the media. "Who is the Brazilian Roma community and what's really going on?" reads a recent Twitter post by journalist and founder of Romani Herstory, Emily Herbert-Pontonier. Many Roma families are currently afraid to go outside, to go to the grocery store. In addition, the surviving relatives of the victims were prohibited from caring for their dead and burying them according to tradition. In a manifesto sent to the authorities in Brazil, including President Jair Bolsonaro, the IRU and the Roma Union of Spain (URS) called for guaranteeing the safety of Brazilian Roma, as Roma could be the target of further racist attacks. The IRU and URS also call for immediate intervention of the United Nations and punishment of those responsible.
Otherwise, the Brazilian authorities, who in recent weeks mentioned the police killing of Roma and encouraged the lynching policy, clearly show that they are not preparing anything different for the future than what marked the past.
Link: https://phralipen.hr/2021/08/09/romi-na-bolsonarovoj-meti/
