Further Information on the Persecution & Ethnic Cleansing of Roma within the European Union
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After posting my last article on the persecution and legalised Ethnic Cleansing of Roma populations throughout mainland Europe, entitled "Ethnic Cleansing of Roma within EU – Time to Enact the Oskar Schindler Covenant", I decided to research the subject even further, to make sure that I was not over-reacting.
I am sad to say that I was not.
As I write this article I feel like I am recounting the Nazi persecution and liquidation of the Gypsies in 1940s Nazi occupied Europe, and it makes me sick to my stomach to think that this could be happening in our day and age. May this stand as a testimony that humanity never learns from history, and it is up to those of us of good will to stand up and speak out against this new wave of Roma persecutions coming. Otherwise, I am afraid that the gas chambers in Europe will be fired up once more.
Italy
What I laid out in my last article was merely the tip of the iceberg. The Italian government in 2009, re-instituted the Venetian Ghetto system,[1] making sure that all Gypsies were rounded up into one place so that the illegal expulsion could take place with the minimum of trouble. The Italian Government had already started to expel Roma from Italy the previous year, but the government decided that Roma Ghettos would make the job so much easier.
As a quick refresher on why the Venetian Princes instituted the Ghettos, the basic history is this: in the 16th Century, at the height of the Inquisition throughout Europe, a law that made it mandatory for the Jews of the Principality to live in one small district of Venice was passed. Also, the same law made it illegal for a non-Jew to live within this district, which was called Ghetto. This is the exact etymology of the word. Then the Pope thought it was a good idea and instituted the same in Rome, thus creating the most famous textiles district in the whole of Italy on the back of Jewish persecution.
Gad Lerner, a columnist and television presenter who was born in Lebanon to Jewish parents and a naturalised Italian, drew attention to the parallels between the prejudice that preceded the persecution of the Jews and the treatment of today's gypsies. It appears that few learn from the tyrannies of history, thus dooming humanity to keep repeating them.
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