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Why does the Traveller community have such a high suicide rate?

The suicide rate in the Traveller community is six times higher than the general population, according to the All-Ireland Traveller Health Study. This increases to seven times higher when focused on Traveller men, and 11% of Traveller deaths are accountable to suicide. Prejudice, poverty and a lack of accessible services have proven to be a tragic combination for one of the most disadvantaged groups in the UK and Ireland.

During the Irish presidential election in October, the climate of fear for Travellers was reinforced by the highly publicised comments of candidate Peter Casey. In the face of discrimination and multiple social barriers, poor mental health has reached a crisis point within the community — a 2017 survey found that 82% of the Travellers surveyed had been personally affected by suicide.

Despite the prevalence of poor mental health, both a lack of cultural competency in the health service and a powerful stigma within the Traveller communities themselves prevent people from seeking help.

Link: https://theovertake.com/~beta/suicide-in-the-traveller-community/

Magnets with the image of Hitler are sold in the center of Skopje

Magnets with the image of Hitler are widely sold on stalls in the Old Skopje Bazaar, in the immediate vicinity of the Museum of the Holocaust. Among the exhibited souvenirs, buyers have a chance to choose magnets with the characters of Mother Teresa, Alexander of Macedon, Tito and Stalin. However, vendors say that the magnates are most wanted with Hitler's image.

Sellers who sell these shocking souvenirs are almost unaware of the consequences they are causing. The frame in which all the magnets are located worries and reveals to what extent humanity has a short memory and a lack of knowledge of historical facts, the passers-by respond.

What is strange is that the image of Hitler and Mother Teresa is next to each other. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize and up to her the man who killed millions of people. A strange combination is that they are next to each other, says a foreign tourist.

In Europe, there is a tendency to awaken neo-Nazism especially during the migration crisis, but in our situation, we are dealing with ignorance, imitation of devastating movements in the world and gaps in the educational system, especially among the young generations.

On several occasions, the Holocaust Memorial Museum has reacted to vendors that globally destroys a world-wide destructive ideology that has killed more than 50 million people. Since the attempts were in vain and the sale of magnets with the image of Hitler continues, the Jewish community in Macedonia submitted an initiative to the Ministry of Justice last year.

"I was beaten just because I'm Roma" - Young Roma posted a photo on his Twitter, followed by a bunch of messages!

A boy of Roma nationality from Serbia was beaten just because he is Roma. The boy who is written on Twitter as "čiganče" published a biography of his blue face.

For himself, he says that he never climbed up in his life, and that he was used to being a "thorn in the eye" of others. As he claims so far, he has been verbally attacked, but now brutally beaten.

About the attack that happened recently says: "I got bitten just because I'm Roma! I got used to verbal insults, but tonight I did not have such happiness and I was physically attacked. I'm not the type that starts the quarrel first. I shared the picture not to pity me, but from the inability to do this after the attack "stands on the post on his Twitter.

- You are silent and you are going. I'm struck but not because of me, but for my sisters, who have the same skin color as I, and if not, I will at least tweet, and maybe something will change "- the boy is hoping. There were many messages with support, but it is not known why he did not report to the police.

Otherwise, there is a rise in discrimination against Roma on a racist basis in Serbia and shows a dangerous advance of racial prejudice to racist practice and violence.

How the Nazis wiped out the Romani middle class

Between 1936 and 1945 the Nazis wiped out over 50% of Europe’s Romani people.
Whether they were choked to death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, “exterminated through labour” climbing the stairs of death at Mauthausen, or shot in a mass grave dug by their own hands in Romania – the extermination of the Gypsies of Europe was carried out with deadly efficiency.

The result in countries like Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and what is now the Czech Republic, was a kill rate of over 90% of the pre-war Romani population. Many massacres of Roma in the East by the Nazis’ roving death squads, the Einsatzgruppen, went unreported or under-documented, meaning the total loss of Romani life will probably never be fully exposed or accounted for.

Europe’s collective memory of the Romani genocide is short compared to the Holocaust of the Jews. Germany paid war reparations to Jewish survivors but never to Romani, and the racial character of the Romani genocide was denied for decades in favour of the argument that Roma were targeted for being asocials and criminals. West Germany only recognised the genocide of Roma officially in 1982.

Link: https://thenorwichradical.com/2019/01/25/how-the-nazis-wiped-out-the-romani-middle-class/

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