December 4th, 2008

Former Czech Prime Minister favors equal opportunity police brutality

milos_zeman.jpgFormer Czech Prime Minister Miloš Zeman recently told Bratislava daily Sme that the Slovak government should beat up Slovak football fans to “balance” the incident against Hungarian fans, writes Index.hu. “The troublemakers very much resemble skinheads and if there’s something I really can’t stand that’s terrorists and skinheads,” he told the paper. “I told [former Slovak Parliamentary Speaker] Jozko Migas that the Slovak government should attack Slovak fans for a change and not just Hungarians.”

Zeman believes the root of the Hungarian-Slovak conflict is due to history, as modern-day Slovakia was formerly northern Hungary, and that this is the cause for the ultranationalism on both sides. The Czech politician also said he respects Slovak PM Robert Fico and considers him a friend, however, he believes Fico made a mistake when he invited Jan Slota to join his government instead of the Hungarian Coalition Party.

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  1. Anonymous says:

    I do not think Fico should have taken MKP instead of Slota,neither should he take Slota as such.
    He should have taken Cristian democrats instead, or better no one and stay with HZDS- who is by the way much worse than Slotas SNS believe me / not vis a vis minority issues,but for Slovakia at large / but given the circuimstances staying with HZDS alone would have eliminated the minority populism agenda at large.
    All in all,the best option,for any country would be to have 1 multi-minority party in the parliament or government, that would represent for all the countrys nations, that form an ethnic minority.
    Ruthens for instance, also represent 10 percent of Slovakias citizens,their houses and churches here were long ago announced a part of UNESCO world heritage and they are getting presque NO attention / as for myself, I am Slovak-Hungarian-German./

  2. Anonymous says:

    And what do you consider yourself?