Far-right vigilantes spark fear in Hungarian Roma
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HAJDUHADHAZ — Fear grows among the Roma community in Hajduhadhaz as news spreads that far-right vigilantes are on their way to patrol the crime-stricken streets of the poor town.
“They are already here, in Radnoti street, 700 of them... They will come here to get us,” a man in his fifties clad in dirty rags shouts to a group mingling about.
The edges of Hajduhadhaz, with their typical “gypsy rows” of doorless brick and adobe shacks, are indeed next on the visiting list of the Brighter Future militia, a sister group of the far-right Jobbik party, which made its way into parliament last year on a wave of anti-Roma animosity.
Home to about 12,000 people — a quarter of whom are Roma — this town in eastern Hungary has a less than illustrious history: Hit by over 15-percent unemployment, it also headed the list of most crime-infected Hungarian towns in 2007..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110410com7.html
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