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Roma life in the countryside: Uncertainty, hard work and full of hope

Nihad Fafulovi е is one of the many people who lead a life that is often taken as an example when describing the life of the Roma - survival from day to day.

Nihad is the father of ten children. They live in the village of Gornji Papartnici near Kakanj in Bosnia. Exclusively with their work where the whole family participates, from the youngest Aydina who is 6 years old to her father Nihad, everyone is engaged to be able to provide basic and only food for life.

- I do this village work I have never worked in any company. I was also registered with the employment agency and they always said "we will call you, wait" - says Nihad. In this village they are one of the two Roma families living in very inhumane conditions. Nihad and his family live in his grandfather's house, which began construction in the 1990s and is still unfinished.

- I work with a horse in a primitive way. People have tractors, machines, and I do it all with a horse. Sometimes some of the villagers will call me and my horse to dig rows for planting potatoes and I do that when I have to.

 Nihad also served 6 months in prison in Busovaca for illegal logging, which he did to feed his family.

  The mother and his minor children were left without a breadwinner when he went to prison, and the modest child allowance did not meet the needs of this poor family in the slightest. He kept the food he received in prison and carried it on weekends when he came home to feed his children.

 

Link: http://www.portal-udar.net/zivot-roma-na-selu-neizvjesnost-ocekivanja-tezak-rad-i-puno-nade/

Died Prof.Dr. Trajko Petrovski, top Roma ethnologist

On August 6 this year, after a short and severe illness at the age of 68, Prof. Dr. Trajko Petrovski.

Trajko Petrovski was born on May 18, 1952. He received his PhD in 1997 from the Department of Ethnology at the University of Zagreb. Through his scientific research activity he left a deep impression in Roma anthropology, folklore, history and language of the Roma as a scientist at the Institute of Folklore "Marko Cepenkov" in Skopje. He remains in history as the first doctor of science of Roma origin and his works as important historical manuscripts. When the Romani language was in its infancy in Macedonia, Petrovski wrote the first Roma Macedonian and Macedonian Romani dictionary in 1998. He is the author of Roma Grammar, published by the Romano Ilo Association. Also, for the time being, Roma students in primary education are learning from his manuscript. He is the author of the textbooks on the subject Language and Culture of the Roma for third, fourth and fifth grade. From the scientific research activity, important works are the calendar customs of the Roma and the ethnic characteristics of the Roma population in Macedonia. In 2017, he published the History of the Roma in Macedonia and the Balkans. Trajko Petrovski was part of the International Roma Union - IRU where he gave his great contribution through the Committee on Language and Culture and also had his presentations during the Scientific Symposiums organized by the IRU in the field of culture, language and details of the Roma Holocaust. With his scientific research and analysis, he left a deep mark as well as documents for further research in those fields.

How the Roma from Nis outwitted the Nazis: They converted to Islam and then told the Serbs and Jews about the graves

In honor of the estimated 1,200,000 Roma, who are estimated to have suffered from the Nazis across Europe. The day of the Roma Holocaust, August 2, was marked in memory of 2,897 Roma who were killed on that day in 1944 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

According to one of the well-known Roma activists in Serbia, Osman Balic, thanks to the friendship of his great-grandfather and the Prime Minister of the then Yugoslavia, Dragisa Cvetkovic, who gave him sly advice, and many Roma people were saved.

- My great-grandfather Osman Balic was a friend of Cvetkovic who was also our neighbor because mine had a house on Jovan Ristic Street and he lived on Kozara Street. Also in the Government of Dragisa Cvetkovic, two Roma were MPs, and my great-grandfather was a lobbyist. When he saw what was being prepared for them, my great-grandfather went to him and asked him to try to protect the Roma from the Germans.

Cvetkovic advised him to address the Jamaat community and the Roma from Nis to convert to Islam, because the Germans were friendly to members of this religion. He did that, talked to the Germans and explained to them that the Roma in Nis were Muslims and that is how he saved them, and there was no great persecution of the Roma in Nis. - said Balic.

As he pointed out, this did not mean that the Roma passed without casualties, but on the contrary, many of them ended up in the camp and then executed at the Bubanj site.

- The assassination of German officers at the Park Hotel on August 2, 1941, when Aleksandar Vojinovic threw a bomb at German officers, led to great retaliation. According to the principle of 100 for one, Serbs and Roma were arrested and brought to the Special Police and then to a camp and then shot - said Balic,

He says that the Serbs tried to save their neighbors and one of the doctors made a trick where at one time he kept the Germans away from the Roma neighborhood for a while.

- A doctor at the entrance to the settlement Stochem Pazar sewed "Tifuz" The Germans were afraid of the infection and did not pass this Roma settlement for a long time.

- A large number of Roma joined the partisans, some of them members of the Yugoslav army and fought against the Germans.

How many Roma suffered in the notorious camp is still unknown today, because the Germans set fire to the archives during the withdrawal, which they practiced everywhere to hide their crimes.

Based on the reconstruction of the documents and the events, the Nardo Museum came to the information that during the occupation about 500 Roma went through the gate of that camp and about 160 were shot and killed and another 30 suffered in internment.

 

Link: https://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/srbija/3220925-kako-su-romi-u-nisu-nadmudrili-naciste-presli-u-islam-pa-javili-za-grobove-srbima-i-jevrejima?fbclid=IwAR2knuvlPXWDdZ08hu3x1H9yh3idlIBvjbjMHQGOLM4WLcclagg6FKLFFgI

Berlin: Riots against protests against restrictive measures in Berlin

A total of 18 police officers were injured during the dispersal of protesters in Berlin during a rally against the introduction of measures to combat the coronavirus, which took place despite the growing number of newly infected, police said.

Three of the injured police officers were hospitalized.

The protest itself was reportedly attended by over 20,000 people.

The riots broke out when police tried to remove some of the protesters from the stage, where the group then began to move uncontrollably. Police say the organizer did not take all security measures.

The organizer says that about 1.3 million people were present at the protest.

 

Link: http://rs.n1info.com/Svet/a625724/Protest-protiv-restriktivnih-mera-u-Berlinu.html?fbclid=IwAR0b-c9iChd27l1G5h71UIsLcQlMCcwlHaWvEWW3YQpHyUVS5lYAfSfJPyU

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