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Summary justice for Roma army deserters

By Liz Fekete

1 March 1997

The Human Rights Project (Sofia) has hired a lawyer to represent the families of two Romani soldiers, Kuncho Anguelov, 20, and Kiril Petkov, 20, who deserted their posts and were shot and killed by a military police officer on 19 July 1996 in the village of Lesura in the Vratsa district in northwestern Bulgaria.

A captain and two sergeants pursued the Roma to their hiding place. When the Roma attempted to escape, the military police opened fire on them with an automatic weapon while shouting racial slurs.

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