New Amnest Report Reveals Roma family forced to live in metal cabins behind sewage works
Source: www.amnesty.org.uk/news-details.asp?NewsID=18587
“We are gypsies and that is why they don’t listen to us” - Monika, May 2009
More than 100 Roma people – including families with children – are living in metal cabins next to a sewage works in Romania after they were forcibly evicted from their homes, according to a new Amnesty report launching today.
The report, Treated like waste: Roma homes destroyed and health at risk in Romania, tells how the Roma people were forcibly evicted by municipal authorities from a building in the centre of Miercurea Ciuc – the capital city of Harghita County in central Romania. Most were resettled by the authorities in metal cabins on the outskirts of the town, behind a sewage plant
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