A professor at the Secondary School of Economics in Tetovo, spread hate speech and insulting words about the Roma ethnic community on her Facebook profile, and the sharpest reaction against her came from an Albanian student who taught the professor a lesson in humanity.

On the International Roma Day, Professor Muhabije Fejzuli was overwhelmed by the congratulations of her fellow Albanians on the Roma community, so she was "encouraged" to say, pointing out to the Albanians how "bad and dangerous" the Roma were. According to the professor, no one denies the Roma the right to education, but here they say that they do not work.

"I do not understand why you pity the Roma so much. I have them in the settlement and I know them very well. If we had a little more power, we Albanians would not disappear. It is enough to remember Monopoly and see how crazy it is. Nobody forbids them to study, they do not want to work and they want to work. The Roma are more heartless than the "shiyet" (kaurite), wrote Fejzuli, a professor at the September 8th Secondary School of Economics in Tetovo.

In response to her hate speech and an educational lesson on humanity and tolerance, high school student and high school president Blendi Hodai in response to FB claimed responsibility for such a vocabulary and said such cases did not embarrass everyone.

"One of the reasons why we hate each other in this country are certain teachers who promote hate speech to other nationalities living in our country during classes.

The professor at the Tetovo School of Economics should urgently take responsibility and publicly apologize for her hatred of Roma. This kind of cases should not be tolerated in any way, since they become negative phenomena in the society ", Hodai wrote, among other things, in his reaction published on Facebook.

At the end of his announcement, Hodai instructed the professor that such a comment did not express patriotism, but that it was banal and shameful for the students to have such a teacher. The announcement ends with the hashtag # racist professor # responsibility.

Professor Fejzuli's announcement also received many reactions from other citizens and users of social networks. In some of them, Albanians react most strongly, offended and irritated that the professor insults on behalf of the Albanians, and many of them say that they live with Roma in mixed settlements in Tetovo, and that coexistence is very different from the one described by the professor. By the way, Tetovo is one of the cities where different ethnic communities live, including members of the Roma community. Potok and Teće are the settlements where the largest number of members of the Roma community live, but several families also live in other settlements.

Link: https://civilmedia.mk/profesorka-so-govor-na-omraza-dobiva-vospitna-od-uchenik/

On the occasion of April 8, the International Roma Day and the 50th anniversary of the International Romani Union - IRU and the holding of the First World Congress of Roma in London in 1971, a delegation from the Network for Systemic and Permanent Solutions for Roma Integration from North Macedonia as well as other representatives of the Roma community were at a reception with the President of the Parliament Talat Djaferi. The network was represented by Zoran Dimov as President of the IRU, Shenaj Osmano, Ferat Asan President of SDSM - Suto Orizari and Ljatifa Shikovska and as an MP.

At the meeting and reception of the President of the Parliament, Talat Djaferi was awarded by the Network with a special plaque for huge contributions to the Roma community, and also the Charter on the occasion of this day.

Talat Djaferi on the occasion of April 8 - International Roma Day, congratulated the members of the Roma community.

He pointed out that building an inclusive society, with dignified living conditions, creation, progress of each individual is our obligation arising from the ratified universal declarations, the Roma Strategy and the Government's Strategic Plans, so that at no time should called into question the full integration of all of our citizens

Link: https://www.sobranie.mk/2020-2024-aktivnosti-ns_article-sredba-na-pretsedatelot-dzaferi-so-pretstavnici-na-romskata-zaednica.nspx