European Roma and Travellers Forum
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Roma ignored at the UN Commemoration of International Day in the memory of the holocaust
\nStrasbourg, 16 January 2009: Today, in a letter addressed to United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon the European Roma and Travellers Forum expressed its indignation at the decision to exclude the Roma Holocaust from the commemoration ceremony.
\nMr. Kawczynski, \u00c2\u00a0president of the European Roma and Travellers Forum said this decision did not honor the United Nations, which should be at the forefront in respecting the memory of persecuted populations.
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\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Holocaust was the implementation of the Final Solution, Hitler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s genocide programme intended to eradicate the genetic contaminants in his plan to create a master race. Only Jews and Roma were subject to the Final Solution, and both peoples lost the same percentage of their total number. However, since the end of the war in 1945, nothing has been done to acknowledge the Romani survivors\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the ERTF president.
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\nMr Kawczynski reminded United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon of his statement \u00c2\u00a0at a Press Conference on 14 December, 2006 where he strongly maintained that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Denying historical facts, especially on such an important subject as the Holocaust, is just not acceptable. Nor is it acceptable to call for the elimination of any State or people. I would like to see this fundamental principle respected both in rhetoric and in practice by all the members of the international community \u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0
\nHe added that the United Nations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 decision to exclude Roma from Holocaust remembrance therefore clearly contradicted his views and only perpetuated the marginalisation of the Roma people in the historical record. The Roma continue to face exclusion and discrimination at all levels.
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\nMr. Kawczynski asked the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon for a meeting to discuss the increasing discrimination and marginalisation of Roma in member states.
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\nThe European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF), which has a partnership agreement with the Council of Europe and a special status with this institution, is Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest and most inclusive Roma organisation. It brings together Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s main international Roma-NGOs and more than 1,500 national Roma organisations from most of the Council of Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s member states.
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\nFor further information please contact:
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\nEuropean Roma and Travellers Forum
\nc\/o Council of Europe
\nF \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 67\u00c2\u00a0075 w:st=”on”Strasbourg
\nTel.: 00 33 3 90 21 53 50
\nEmail: ertf@ertf.org or ertf@coe.int
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For a first hand account of Roma persecution during the holocaust, I recommend Winter Time: Memoirs of a German Sinto who survived Auschwitz<\/strong> by Walter Winter. European Roma and Travellers Forum Press Release Roma ignored at the UN Commemoration of International Day in the memory of the holocaust Strasbourg, 16 January 2009: Today, in a letter addressed to United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon the European Roma and Travellers Forum expressed its indignation at the decision to exclude the Roma Holocaust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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