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Update on pogrom at Hadareni

By Liz Fekete

1 April 1995

Amnesty International has provided an update on events at Hadareni in Mures County where on 20 September 1993 three Roma were killed and 170 Roma forced to abandon their homes during a night of racial violence.

The Romanian Intelligence Service has, in its annual report, portrayed those Roma who contacted international organisations following the pogrom as constituting a threat to national security. No-one has to date been charged with the murder of the Roma or the destruction of their property. But a Romani woman, Maria Moldovan, was fined on 27 November 1993 for disturbing the peace because she shouted out that her son was being beaten by the police. When she appealed, her fine was converted into a sentence of 33 days imprisonment. Authorities, claiming judicial error, released her two days later.

AI Concerns in Europe: May/December 1994 AI Index EUR 01/01/95

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