Posts Tagged ‘Roma’

Madonna booed for Roma comments

August 28th, 2009

Madonna was booed by thousands of fans when she spoke against “discrimination of Romanies and Gypsies in Eastern Europe” during a concert in Romania. She paused during her show and said: “It made me feel very sad.” Thousands in the crowd of 60,000 booed her. Read more here

Czechs outraged by anti-Roma TV ad

May 22nd, 2009

The Czech government has expressed outrage over the broadcast of an anti-Roma (Gypsy) campaign advert by a far-right National Party (NS) which spoke of “a final solution to the Gypsy issue” Read more here

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