After the published results from the Census in R.North Macedonia which resulted in numbers and indicators that in the country among others, the Roma community is not more than 2.53% still do not subside.
The Roma Democratic Union – RDU also reacts and agrees with the facts presented by the Network for Systemic and Sustainable Solutions, which includes 15 Roma NGOs. The reaction from the Network says:
"The facts speak for themselves." That we are not 46,468 and that we can not be 10,000 people less than in 2002 is an unprecedented absurdity.
Another lie with which the Statistical Office wants to be amnestied is the number of enumerated persons with administrative assistance 132,260 or persons who were not enumerated by the Statistical Office on the spot but used the databases of state institutions..
In this figure we claim that more than 70,000 are Roma and the claims are based on the following arguments:
There were the least number of Roma enumerators during the census;
Roma households were never visited during the census;
Questionnaires were filled out at home during the census;
During the census, the section on ethnicity was filled with Turkish, Macedonian and Albanian;
During the census, 132,260 people were deliberately left out to speculate on their nationality.
The statement of the Director of the Statistical Office, Mr. Apostol Simoski, who said that ethnicity is a feeling that in our opinion implies the possibility of change or the possibility of amnesty for such figures that appeared in the CENSUS 2021, raises doubts in the above.
That is why we assure you that we are more than 100,000 inhabitants or more than 4.76% in the Republic of Northern Macedonia. "
One thing is for sure. From the presented figures for the number of the Roma community in the country, the Roma are "SCORED". But what is most tragic of those "burns" now not even 1000 plastic surgeons treat us, and the "scars" and "wounds" of this mating will be visible and also "painful".
Cheers my Roma with the new scars!
