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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on May 22, 2019, 03:34:55 am
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Tension flares between Roma, extremists in Hungary
(https://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20190521&t=2&i=1389567549&r=LYNXNPEF4K1X7&w=1280)
Members of far-right, nationalist groups attend a protest against criminal attacks caused by youth, in Torokszentmiklos, Hungary, May 21, 2019. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
TOROKSZENTMIKLOS, Hungary (Reuters) - Several hundred radical nationalists, including hard-line extremists, protested in a small town in eastern Hungary on Tuesday against what they call “Roma crimeâ€.
In the town of Torokszentmiklos, east of Budapest, a few hundred Roma, mostly men, held a counter-protest commemorating the killing of innocent Roma in a series of shootings a decade ago that traumatized the country and helped give rise to the political far right.
Although no violence ensued on Tuesday, the groups faced off in a way that has been largely unseen in recent years after a turbulent and sometimes violent period shook Roma-Hungarian ties about a decade ago.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-extremists/tension-flares-between-roma-extremists-in-hungary-idUSKCN1SR2DQ (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-extremists/tension-flares-between-roma-extremists-in-hungary-idUSKCN1SR2DQ)
Hungary, Bulgaria and maybe Romania too, per folklore, seem to be seen as countries where Gypsies (Roma) lived more per histoiry. Anyway, I don't quite buy those looking so hardcore per these flag-wavers above. Just my $.02 cents.