The official International Roma Union – IRU with headquarters in Vienna, and its ECOSOC status in the UN and its representatives in New York, Vienna and Geneva, with its EU office in Brussels, and legally elected President Zoran Dimov by over 70 IRU delegates from 50 states that was elected at the regular 11th Congress of the IRU in 2020 through a statement reacts to the repeated manipulation by Dorin Cioaba the self-proclaimed Roma king from Sibiu Romania.

He shares videos and statuses in public through social networks that he is "organizing the 12th Roma Congress of the IRU". He organizes this "masquerade and manipulation" illegally and manipulatively right in his city of Sibiu, Romania. His "game" is so transparent" that he presents himself as "its president", and with forged IRU seals and memoranda he certifies the self-imposed "Decisions, Requests and Conclusions"

Otherwise, Dorin Cioaba is known from before as a person whom the Romanian authorities prosecuted for certain criminal acts, as well as embezzlement of state funds, tax evasion, etc.

Using the social exclusion and poverty of the Romanian Roma, Cioaba manipulated and profited off the backs of the poor Roma from Romania, as well as the Roma who were victims of the Holocaust.

The Romanian media also wrote about his suspicious actions.

Otherwise, according to the IRU Statute, the regular Congress of the IRU is held every 4 years, and in logical order the next 12th should be held in 2024.

In order to succeed in his plan and assert himself as "legitimate", he also includes people who have no contact point with the IRU on his list of attendees, and on that list the largest percentage of names of his "close friends from Romania" and the environment.

The reaction of the official and valid IRU, headed by President Zoran Dimov, is from the point of view of not misleading the public and the official international institutions as well as the institutional partners and collaborators of the IRU.

Dorin Cioaba has always been ready to manipulate the public in order for him and his close associates to profit off the backs of the Roma people.

Because of this, the IRU will send its correspondence and reactions to all relevant international institutions in the UN and its accompanying organizations, to the European Union and all accompanying institutions, as well as a letter and reaction to the Government of Romania to reconsider the validity of this event - it is stated in the information of The office of the official International Roma Union - IRU, based in Vienna.

"Straight and strong as a tree trunk." Those are the characteristics that led Johann Trollman, a gifted boxer from Hannover, Germany, to be given the nickname "Rukeli", which in the language of the German Roma and Sinti means "tree", while Nazism was still on the rise. 

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Trollman was born in 1907, had eight siblings, and began his training as an amateur boxer at the age of eight. When he turned 15 he won a regional championship and became a member of the Heros Hannover boxing club. 

Rukeli excelled at a boxing technique that was uncommon at the time. He defeated his opponents not just with his dynamic, swift blows, but also involved his legs and circled around them - in the words of the future boxing visionary, Muhammad Ali, he "flew like a butterfly and stung like a bee". 

This was the opposite of the boxing style that was predominant at the time, which appeared rather cumbersome in comparison. Thanks to his boxing gifts and specific technique, Rukeli, who also had the face of a Hollywood star, won the German championship in the middleweight category in 1933, beating Adolf Witt.

However, this meant that a champion of this sport, which was considered by Hitler to be one of the most "noble" of athletic disciplines and one in which the "Germanic soul" was said to display itself the most, was now a Romani man. From the perspective of the Nazi chiefs, that outcome of the match, which had gone 12 rounds, could not be allowed to stand without some kind of response, given Rukeli's origins.  

The referees, therefore, despite the course of the match having been unambiguous, failed to declare Rukeli the victor. Of course, that sparked vocal disagreement from those spectators who were enthusiastic over his performance, and he eventually was awarded the title of champion of Germany.