In Romania, on February 20, 1856, after five centuries, the slaves were abolished against the Roma. However, 160 years later, this shameful page of history that is silenced in school textbooks remains a hidden place in Romanian society. Although Romanian artists have recently dealt with this historical issue, Romanian slavery largely remains a taboo in Romanian society.

"500 years of slavery is a tragic period in Romania's history ... a period in which the Roma people did not have a status of people," AFP ethnologist and Roma activist Delia Grigora told.
 
Roma in the Romanian directors of Wallachia and Moldova are mentioned for the first time in a document dating from 1385, when Prince Dan "donated 40 Roma families to the Tisama monastery".
  
By the middle of the 19th century, the Roma mostly served slaves of the Vlachs and Moldova, which amounted to about 250,000. Wallachia's criminal law stipulated that "all Roma were born as slaves".
 
In 1848, a proclamation was issued for "the Romanian people to be freed from the shame of slaves and declaring freedom for the Gypsies," which is the first step towards their complete liberation in 1856.
  
"The Roma still carry stigma from that period, their personal interest is very low," Grigorjeva said.

 
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Hundreds of Roma with posters, megaphones, whistles gathered this morning in front of the municipality building in Burgas and demanded the resignation of its leadership. The Roma are residents of the Pobeda neighborhood.

They want immediate release of the water supply, which the local water supply company stopped because of accumulated debts for more than 100 000 leva.
The Roma state that they could not go to school to be unloved, they would get scabbies, lice, measles.

BGN 100,000 account for water due to illegal water supply
The protest in Bourgas was guarded by gendarmerie and policemen with specially trained dogs.

Mayor Dimitar Nikolov said he does not accept the appeals for resignation. He explained to the protesters that the Water Supply and Sewerage Company is a state-owned company and can not be ordered to restore the water supply in the neighborhood.
"Whoever has a very large water bill and can not pay it right now has the right to make a deferred payment contract," said the mayor.

The Roma have threatened that if their request is not met, after 24 May they will leave their jobs in the cleaning municipal company and thus the city will be littered with junk.

"I urge people to calm down, I will not allow riots and escalation in the center of the city, I do not perceive these extreme calls for violence, the rules and laws in Bulgaria apply to all citizens and as a mayor I have to observe whether these laws are observed. to help them check their lots and who did not pay for it, and after this happens I will help them to restore the water supply, "said the mayor of Bourgas.