Violence and harassment in Bulgaria
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Silistra: protests follow murder of Roma man
On the evening of 2 August Gunal Taliat, a Muslim Turkish-speaking Roma, was killed in a brawl outside a disco in Silistra, in the north-east of the country on the Danube.
15 August 2003 (108 words)
Kazanlak region: Roma killed in man-trap
On 7 October 2002 Boyan Mihailov, a 24-year-old Romani man, apparently trespassing in a Bulgarian vineyard in the Kazanlak region, was shot and killed by a home-made firearm trap.
1 November 2002 (98 words)
Samakov, Sofia region: serious attacks on Roma
According to the Sofia-based Human Rights Project, a gang attack on two Roma by twenty Bulgarian youths at a bus station in Samakov, Sofia region, left one of the Roma seriously injured.
1 August 2002 (85 words)
Intellectuals condemn 'gypsification' of Bulgarian villages
On 2 May, the nationalist weekly newspaper Nova Zora published an open letter from 374 intellectuals and artists, calling upon the Bulgarian president to 'stop the oriental invasion'.
1 January 2001 (70 words)
Anti-Roma sentiment in villages grows
AI has warned of rising social tensions across Bulgaria which have been created by the marginalisation of the Roma in a period of economic and social transition.
1 January 2001 (202 words)
Rom dies following arson in Sofia
An arson attack on a building in which Rom families lived in the market area of Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, has left one person dead and fifteen people injured.
1 June 1995 (55 words)
An open letter from desperate Roma
Roma from the Plovdiv district have written an open letter detailing human rights abuses in Rakitova. They have written anonymously, because 'they are not sure what awaits us tomorrow'.
1 April 1995 (162 words)
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