Historical Taking responsibility: unconditional protection for Roma

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State Association Niedersachsen e. V.

PRO ASYLUM

Presseerklärung

8. Dezember 2009

"perceive historical responsibility: unconditional protection for Roma"

date 2,000 people support the call by

71 years ago today, the circular was issued by Heinrich Himmler "out to control the gypsy question of the nature of the race." On this occasion refugee councils, together with PRO ASYLUM and the Association of Victims of the Nazi regime, collar hand over the anti-fascists to the Interior Ministry, the first 2,000 signatures to the call " assume historical responsibility: unconditional protection for Roma . 500 000

on Roma and Sinti were murdered under Nazi rule in Europe. After the liberation from fascism had to as "gypsies" defamed people long fight for recognition as victims of the Nazi regime. Roma and Sinti, who survived the concentration camps were, in postwar Germany for a long time or no little compensation. Only in 2008 was done in Berlin, the groundbreaking for a memorial to commemorate the murdered Roma and Sinti.

now threatened based on an agreement between the Federal Government of the Republic of Kosovo, some 10,000 Roma who fled the civil war in Yugoslavia to Germany, the current deportation to Kosovo, where poverty and discrimination to open racist attacks expected. Despite the broad criticism of the deportation plans, the Interior Minister at their meeting on 3 / 4 December 2009 in Bremen, a stop deportation of Roma not on the agenda set.

The call of the associations has also been made by Felicia Langer (winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize), Romani Rose (Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma) and signed a number of state assembly and parliamentary deputies. He points out that it seems implausible when one part of the genocide of Jews and Roma and Sinti denounced and condemned, on the other hand, the families of these two population groups unconditional protection is denied.

The Signatories of the call request from the government representatives at all levels, a more sensitive handling of the members of groups who were persecuted during the fascism. The Federal Republic is invited to take their historical responsibility as a successor state to Nazi Germany's true and to give as a consequence of the Roma a permanent residence permit, instead they want to deport refugees to Kosovo.

calling, the initiators of the call to continue to support the appeal http://www.nds-fluerat.org/keine-abschiebung-von

( -Roma refugees / )

Contact :

Tel.: 069 23 06 95

Email: presse@proasyl.de

Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachsen, Tel. 05121 to 15605, sw@nds-fluerat.org