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May 4th, 2009

Fidesz condemns anti-Roma violence following EU meeting

By MTI

The main opposition Fidesz party calls for resolute action against anti-Roma violence and against incitement to hatred but also opposes branding Hungary as a whole as racist, a Fidesz parliamentary official told MTI after talks with European Commission Vice-President Jacques Barrot in Budapest on Friday.

Zoltan Balog, head of the human rights committee, and Barrot, EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, agreed that incitement to hatred and murders are inacceptable and intolerable in a democracy, and that all political forces should join forces to prevent them.

At the same time, they called it unfortunate if the whole population of the country is branded as racist before the perpetrators of certain anti-Roma crimes are arrested.

Over the past half a year five Roma people were killed in three Hungarian localities by perpetrators believed to be belonging to the same circle. To date, however, none of the killers have been arrested.

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8 Comments

  1. Bacsi says:
    May 4, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    It used to take Fidesz a while to ‘Re-write’ history..
    But we’re now managing to do this inside a week or two??
    We can now cliam to have reached ‘Russian’ levels of dis-information!!!
    The value of ‘TRUTH’ just took another nose-dive?
    How truly sad..

  2. Godot says:
    May 4, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    Bacsi,
    Is there a system in your random acts of capitalization? What is it?

  3. Bacsi says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    @Godot
    ‘Is there a system in your random acts of capitalization? What is it? ‘
    Please explain?

  4. Tinkabell says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    Real democracy, which is not manipulated by the power elite.

  5. Bacsi says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    @Tinkabell
    ‘Real democracy, which is not manipulated by the power elite’
    Please explain?

  6. Tinkabell says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    your too thick to understand!

  7. Bacsi says:
    May 4, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    @Tinkabell
    I think what you meant was ‘YOU’RE’ thick to understand..
    Not YOUR too thick…
    But Who wants to nit pick over spelling and grammer.
    Not Me..
    Have to go now.
    Bye Bye.

  8. Gordon Torche says:
    December 18, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    Hi there guys, all man’s situations have their ups and downs. We feel those of the here and now but never see or feel those of the future; and so we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and often for the worst. HAPPY CHRISTMAS XXX