Violence and harassment in Romania
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Harghita County: Roma forced out
A group of Roma were attacked by over 50 ethnic Hungarians in the village of Betesti in Harghita County in an incident which started over where a tractor should be parked.
1 January 2003 (121 words)
Mayor of Piatra-Neamt plans Roma ghetto
In October 2001, Ion Rotaru, the mayor of Piatra-Neamt outlined a plan to move local Roma into a disused chicken farm (the rooms of which are without water, sanitation and infested with insects) surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by police and dogs.
1 August 2002 (84 words)
Treaty establishes Hungarian minority rights
Romania has guaranteed a range of rights to its large Hungarian minority in a bilateral treaty under which Hungary renounces any claim to Transylvania.
1 December 1996 (72 words)
Anti-Romany violence in Bicu
There has been violence against Romany families in the village of Bicu, in the district of Giurgiu, which, since May 1991, has experienced many similar incidents.
1 April 1995 (81 words)
Update on pogrom at Hadareni
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.
1 April 1995 (153 words)
Helsinki Watch documents anti-Roma violence
A Helsinki Watch report, entitled 'Lynch Law in Romania', documents twenty violent mob attacks on Roma that took place between January 1990 and May 1994
5 March 1995 (32 words)
Anti-Semitism warning
Romania's Chief Rabbi, Moses Rosen, has warned against anti-Semitism in Romania after Romania's parliamentary elections saw gains for the nationalist Right, particularly the Romanian National Unity Party and Romania Mare.
1 December 1992 (52 words)
Pogroms against gypsies
As Germany begins the process of deportation of Romanian gypsies, further evidence has emerged of the persecution of gypsies in Romania.
1 December 1992 (66 words)
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