EurActiv.com | 3  September 2010: Lawmakers from the far-right were the only ones to defend French President Nicolas Sarkozy's tough policies towards the Roma during a debate in the European Parliament yesterday (2 September). A discussion on France's Roma expulsions, held in the Parliament's committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs (LIBE), saw the European far-right take the... 

Deportation of Gypsies is in line with EU law, says minister. Ian Traynor | The Guardian | 31 August 2010: Nicolas Sarkozy's government today launched a robust defence of its widely criticised crackdown on Gypsy immigrants in France. A week before convening a meeting of several European interior ministers in Paris to drum up support for the hardline policy and to seek to extend it across the EU,... 

Jenny Barchfield | The Independent | 28 August 2010: France has come under increasing pressure to stop its mass expulsions of Roma when a United Nations human rights panel added its voice to the chorus of condemnation. In recent weeks, French officials have dismantled more than 100 illegal camps and sent hundreds of Roma back to their homes in eastern Europe. A report released yesterday by a UN... 

Unprecedented investigation by human rights commissioner says Hutu deaths 'cannot be put down to margins of war'. Chris McGreal, Xan Rice & Lizzy Davies | The Guardian | 26 August 2010: The United Nations has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An unprecedented 600-page investigation by the UN high... 

EuroNews | 25 August 2010: France remains defiant in the face of widespread criticism over its policy of deporting Roma gypsies and closing illegal camps. More than 8,000 Roma have been sent back to Romania and Bulgaria this year so far and nearly 300 are flying back on Wednesday on two special flights. The French interior minister Brice Hortefeux has already met two Romanian ministers in talks... 

Elements of the right growing uneasy with policy, undermining government's claim that only liberal elite oppose it. Lizzy Davies | The Guardian | 24 August 2010: France's crackdown on its foreign Roma population came under fire from all sides of the political and social spectrum today as pressure mounted on the government to abandon its plan to "return" hundreds of people to their native countries. The... 

After half a decade of random murders of Hungarian Gypsies, four suspects have been arrested amid claims they may have had links with the country’s various secret intelligence services. Gabriel Ronay | Herald Scotland | 22 August 2010: Now, with the Hungarian Defence Ministry having made a timid admission to the allegations, conspiracy theorists are having a field day. Over the years, six Roma,... 

France: So far this week in France there have been 86 voluntary repatriations on Thursday of Roma and 136 compulsory expulsions on Friday. French Immigration Minister Eric Besson said they left the country on "a voluntary basis" in exchange for grants of 300 euros (385 dollars) per adult. Officials say around 850 Roma are to be thrown out of France this month. The French opposition has accused... 

More than 100 Roma were deported by France on Friday in the second day of a controversial clampdown on the minority group. Staff Writer | The Telegraph | 21 August 2010: But as the 124 people landed in Timisoara, in their native Romania, many said they planned to head straight back to France. "Of course I'm thinking about returning to France. Life is better than in Romania," said 26-year-old Ionut... 

  Nicolas Sarkozy's programme of expulsion gathers pace as fear and resignation spreads among Marseille's immigrants. Lizzy Davies | The Guardian | 19 August 2010: Outside No 431, rue de Lyon, the Mediterranean sun beat down on the pavement and an old man lay in wait for the police. Inside, behind the long grass and a dilapidated green gate, the women were preparing themselves for the worst.... 

France's deportation of Roma is nothing short of state-sponsored racism. When will the international community stand up for us? Ethel Brooks | The Guardian | 18 August 2010: What era are we living in? The sad answer is that we are living – once again, it would seem – at a time when France is harassing and expelling its Romany population in the name of law and order. Last week, the French government... 

Markus Pape [Translated by Gwendolyn Albert] | Romea.cz | 17 August 2010: “Cowardly racist murders” – that’s what Romani Rose has called the recent attacks by neo-Nazis on Roma in Hungary. Rose was speaking on 2 August at the annual international commemoration at the site of the former extermination camp at Auschwitz. He went on to say the murders represented “a new dimension of the violence... 

Former ambassador issues warning as Nicolas Sarkozy's government prepares its first 'removal flights' to send illegal Roma to Bucharest. Lizzy Davies | The Guardian | 18 August 2010: Romania's foreign minister warned about rising populism and xenophobia in France today as Paris prepared to carry out the first of its planned flights home for dozens of Roma expelled from their camps as part of a... 

Some 700 people have been removed from more than 40 illegal Roma (Gypsy) camps in France as part of a police crackdown backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy. BBC News | 12 August 2010: The country's Interior Minister, Brice Hortefeux, said the Roma would be returned to their country of origin on "specially chartered flights". Meanwhile, members of a committee of UN experts sharply criticised France's... 

  Kathy Marks | The Independent | 5 August 2010: Aboriginal disadvantage has not rated a mention during the Australian election campaign – there are few votes in it. But as the party leaders criss-crossed the country this week, shocking evidence emerged at a government inquiry: children in remote indigenous communities are starving. The claims were made by child protection workers, who... 

The two earlier articles, "Ethnic Cleansing of Roma within EU – Time to Enact the Oskar Schindler Covenant" and "Further Information on the Persecution & Ethnic Cleansing of Roma within the European Union", give a general overview of the persecution that the Roma suffer within the European Union, including documented instances of ethnic cleansing and racially motivated murders. These two articles... 

France's plan to evict Roma people is the latest example of an aggressive EU stance that will amplify the minority's problems. Rob Kushen | The Guardian | 3 August 2010: Last week, Nicolas Sarkozy announced new plans to evict Travellers and Roma from all "illegal settlements" in France and to expel from the country all Roma who are citizens of other EU countries. This announcement has triggered... 

Valentina Pop | EU Observer | 30 July 2010: The European Commission on Thursday said it is up to member states to decide whether they expel Roma people, but only on an individual basis and respecting the principle of "proportionality", in reaction to France's announcement it will dismantle 300 Roma camps within three months. "We're not here, as the European Commission, to judge on individual cases... 

Romea.cz | 1 August 2010: Hindus and Jews blame European Union of apartheid and racism in view of recent reported expelling of Roma people by various European countries. Rajan Zed, Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent Jewish leader in Nevada and California in USA; in a statement in Nevada today, pointed out that references to Roma people reportedly went as far back as ninth... 

Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered authorities to expel gipsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps amid accusations the government is acting in a racist manner. Henry Samuel | The Telegraph | 28 July 2010: Mr Sarkozy called a government meeting Wednesday after Roma clashed with police this month after the shooting death of a gipsy youth fleeing officers in the Loire Valley. The French president...