Orientation Text
Drawn up by the
editorial committee present at the seminary "Rroms
and the trial of great
Saint Denis,
Rromani
representatives in the committee: Dr. Marcel Courthiade
(IRU and
Most of the ten million Rroms
who live in
It is therefore vital:
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To recognise the Nazi genocide of
the Rroms, Sinte and Kale
in the nations which emulated Nazism before and during the 2nd World War.
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To demand for all Rroms the access to basic rights and their putting into
practice, in particular in the fields of education, training, health,
accommodation and work.
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To denounce and firmly condemn,
right up to the highest level in Europe, all acts of violence committed by the
police against Rroms: beatings, total or partial
destruction of their homes or other possessions such as musical instruments,
throwing tear gas grenades into their homes, intimidating and brutalising their
children, breaking up families, etc.
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To recognise in the European
Constitution the Rromani people, their language and
their culture, as being an integral part of the European national plurality.
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To demand:
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the annulation
of all texts and projects which interfere directly or indirectly with people's
free circulation and residence.
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the withdrawal of the
concept of the "safe country" which takes away the right of
sanctuary, a right which, on the contrary, should be extended.
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To promote and subsidise all
initiatives which work towards:
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highlighting the Rroms’s
contribution to
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giving the Rroms
the means (institutional, financial or otherwise) to organise themselves in
their own democratic, competent way.
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To draw up efficient strategies to
fight against all forms of xenophoby, discrimination,
racism and tsiganophobic stigmatisation whether from
the authorities, Members of Parliament or individuals including from within the
Rromani people.
These orientations integrate naturally in the project
to build a different
The mobilisation around these demands is recent and
fragile. It needs to be reinforced by multiplying joint actions.