Thursday, November 11, 2010
Czech Government Slammed over Roma Kids
Human rights groups have lodged a complaint with the EU condemning the Czech government of segregating Roma children, by placing them in mentally disabled schools.
In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, the human rights groups accused the Czech government of failing to address the problem of healthy Roma children who are being admitted to mentally disabled schools, AP reported.
The Roma rights advocacy groups who filed the complaint included the Open Society Justice Initiative, European Roma Rights Center and the Greek Helsinki Monitor.
The statement further added Roma children face a similar kind of discrimination in Greece and Croatia, Slovakia, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and even Spain has "a serious level of segregation".'
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So, the bottom line is there is some sort of South-European conspiracy against the Romas. Or more likely for some reason the Roma population deserves that treatment, if it happens all over Europe.
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