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Panayote Dimitras of the Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) wrote this comment on the post Votanikos: Evictions:
Actually the “cleaning operations” are meant to clean only Roma not the garbage. While we were with DD there, in Hania they were “cleaning” -illegally evicting- the local Roma from an area Roma have lived for over a year. Before it was a garbage dump and no one was cleaning it or was bothered by it. Do you know who cleaned the Roma in Hania? The “inter-municipal company on solid waste” (στερεα αποβλητα)…
Here are pictures of that "cleaning operation" (Photo credit: Haniotika Nea)
These are the people they are actually cleansing the area of…
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detailed info on the case (in Greek) in:
http://cm.greekhelsinki.gr/ind.....8;cid=2391
Thanks for bringing us this excellent series of posts on the Roma communities in Greece
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3rd World View on the blocking of Indian blogs hosted on Blogger.com, Typepad.com and some Geocities blogs. Whose next in the war against bloggers?
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Thanks sokari for commenting and for the link. I am trying to find as many ways as possible to spread the word about this forgotten community. More to follow in the coming week.
[...] Posted by brownfemipower on 23 Jul 2006 at 06:15 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized in case you haven’t made it over there yet, go see devious diva’s excellent series on Roma immigrants in Greece. [...]
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