A boy of Roma nationality from Serbia was beaten just because he is Roma. The boy who is written on Twitter as "čiganče" published a biography of his blue face.

For himself, he says that he never climbed up in his life, and that he was used to being a "thorn in the eye" of others. As he claims so far, he has been verbally attacked, but now brutally beaten.

About the attack that happened recently says: "I got bitten just because I'm Roma! I got used to verbal insults, but tonight I did not have such happiness and I was physically attacked. I'm not the type that starts the quarrel first. I shared the picture not to pity me, but from the inability to do this after the attack "stands on the post on his Twitter.

- You are silent and you are going. I'm struck but not because of me, but for my sisters, who have the same skin color as I, and if not, I will at least tweet, and maybe something will change "- the boy is hoping. There were many messages with support, but it is not known why he did not report to the police.

Otherwise, there is a rise in discrimination against Roma on a racist basis in Serbia and shows a dangerous advance of racial prejudice to racist practice and violence.

Between 1936 and 1945 the Nazis wiped out over 50% of Europe’s Romani people.
Whether they were choked to death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, “exterminated through labour” climbing the stairs of death at Mauthausen, or shot in a mass grave dug by their own hands in Romania – the extermination of the Gypsies of Europe was carried out with deadly efficiency.

The result in countries like Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and what is now the Czech Republic, was a kill rate of over 90% of the pre-war Romani population. Many massacres of Roma in the East by the Nazis’ roving death squads, the Einsatzgruppen, went unreported or under-documented, meaning the total loss of Romani life will probably never be fully exposed or accounted for.

Europe’s collective memory of the Romani genocide is short compared to the Holocaust of the Jews. Germany paid war reparations to Jewish survivors but never to Romani, and the racial character of the Romani genocide was denied for decades in favour of the argument that Roma were targeted for being asocials and criminals. West Germany only recognised the genocide of Roma officially in 1982.

Link: https://thenorwichradical.com/2019/01/25/how-the-nazis-wiped-out-the-romani-middle-class/