Roberto Malini
Covaciu The case of Rebecca and her father, the evangelical Christian missionary Stelian, is emblematic of climate surrounding the Roma people in Italy today. Reports of violence, threats and racist abuse against Roma, implemented by Italian citizens, neo-Nazis or members of law enforcement ("suspected members" underlined the authorities) is increasing every day. When the victims complain or claim their rights through human rights groups or the media, you experience immediate retaliation, always the hardest. Some Roma, especially Romanians, seems to have disappeared and their families no longer have news of them. As reported by MEP Viktoria Mohacsi Hungarian of Roma origin, the practice of abduction of Roma children from the authorities is still ongoing and now covers hundreds of cases. The Roma mothers, who suddenly see their children steal, attempt to commit suicide in many cases, "even by drinking bleach or gasoline," a witness told us. Heavy intimidation strike now also activists. "By combining the actions of EveryOne Covaciu family support," a volunteer told us yesterday, "I have lived days of terror. Who was protecting the Roma by the authorities with hostility, as if it were a dangerous criminal or an abettor of criminals. We live in a dictatorial regime that is operating an ethnic purge, but the complicity between media and executioner makes the humanitarian tragedy occurs indifference. "Fortunately, Europe and the United Nations are very close to the anti-racist network that has been created in Italy. The European Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg is in constant contact with the EveryOne Group and the National Coordinating Discrimination and these days will audit at the Italian institutions to identify actions to be undertaken. The CERD (Committee of Nations Convention against Racial Discrimination) and UNICEF are in network with us and intend to implement interventions both in relation to the case of Rebecca in general to fight the persecution of the Roma do not forget, then, support for campaigns of EveryOne Group and the National Coordination Antdiscriminazioni radicals and some European political groups (ALDE, PSE, Verts / ALE , GUE / NGL etc). they never miss. "The campaign for the rights of the Roma population there will always beside you," he assured me lately Marco Pannella. At the same time, MEP Viktoria Mohacsi is committed with great energy to spread the reality of oppression that takes on the hazy outlines of a new holocaust. The new synergy with the Association Romano Them (World Gypsy) and the progressive growth of the National Coordination Antidiscriminazione ci assicurano la possibilità di attuare strategie nazionali e internazionali a 360 gradi. Tornando al gravissimo episodio di persecuzione della famiglia Covaciu, ricordiamo che Stelian è membro del Gruppo EveryOne e che da molte parti questo particolare comincia ad essere associato alle molteplici aggressioni che si sono verificate contro di lui. Minacce gravi e intimidazioni di ogni genere hanno già toccato, ormai, praticamente tutti i membri del Gruppo EveryOne, nonostante il Parlamento europeo abbia intimato agli Stati membri dell'Unione di assicurare un clima di collaborazione intorno alle organizzazioni che operano per i Diritti Umani e di evitare di ostacolare il loro operato, fondamentale in una società democratica. Dopo l'aggressione on 17 June and the beating of 19, the next day, June 20, 2008, the same agents of violence, still in uniform and brandishing batons deadly, are back in Piazza Tirana, and have combed the area, asking for Roma with a threatening tone of the place where they could find Rebecca. In anticipation of the new raids, however, our group in Milan and its partners had already moved his family to a safe place. To all the anti-racist, an invitation to the efforts hundredfold, because the arrogance and violence manifested by prison guards, indoor and stubbornly uncritically by the authorities, not a sign of strength, but that uncontrolled nervousness that belongs to the base. Must not lack the courage to anyone because if we were four years ago in a few to deal with abuse and pogroms against the Roma families, we are now in the thousands. And if before the press, television and radio stations operate a total censorship, in this matter (except for radio networks such as Radical, and Indymedia Radio Popolare), today there are dozens of journalists who spread democratic regularly chronicle of persecution, breaking through the curtain of silence and complicity. None of you, friends, anti-racist, it just is.
Contact: Gruppo EveryOne
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