Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) - Scarecrow Press

CHRONOLOGY OF GYPSY HISTORY • xxxiii
gary: European Roma Rights Center set up in Budapest. Ireland: National
Strategy on Traveller Accommodation proposed. Poland: Houses
occupied by Romanies attacked in Wiebodzice. Romania: Twenty-one
Romany houses burned down in Curtea de Arges. Mircea-Muresul Mosor
shot and killed by chief of police in Valcele. Serbia: Gypsies attacked in
Kraljevo. Slovakia: Eighteen-year-old Romany youth beaten to death by
skinheads in Poprad. Jozef Miklos dies when his house is set on fire in
Zalistie. Spain: Romany Union’s second “Sarajevo” Peace Conference,
in Gasteiz (Vittoria). Turkey: Five thousand evicted from Selamsiz quarter
of Istanbul. Ukraine: “Mrs. H” raped by police in Mukacevo. Two
brothers shot by police in Velikie Beryezni.
1997 Bulgaria: February—Killing of three Gypsies by police reported.
Police attack the Gypsy quarter in Pazardjik. November—
International conference on Gypsy children and their education held.
Czech Republic: February—Appeals court in Pilsen quashes acquittal
of inn owner Ivo Blahout on a charge of discrimination. March—
Four skinheads sentenced to prison in connection with the 1993 death
of Tibor Danihel. August—Several hundred Romanies fly to Canada to
seek asylum. Monument erected at Hodonin to concentration camp victims.
France: March—Jose Ménager and Manolito Meuche shot dead
by police in Nantes. Greece: April—One hundred families evicted
from Ano Liosia. Partially resettled in a guarded camp. Hungary:
February—Gypsies beaten up in Szombathely police station and in a
police car in Mandatany in separate incidents. May—Fifth annual
International Conference on Culture held in Budapest. Norway:
November—In Bergen, Ian Hancock receives Thorolf Rafto Prize on
behalf of the Romany people. Poland: June—Romanies attacked in
Wiebodzice. Romania: January—Mob attacks Gypsy houses in Tanganu
village. Spain: November—European Congress of Gypsy Youth
held in Barcelona. Turkey: January—Mob attacks Gypsies in
Sulukule district of Istanbul. Ukraine: January—Gypsies beaten by
police in four separate incidents in Uzhorod. United Kingdom:
November—National Front demonstrates in Dover against asylum
seekers from the Czech and Slovak republics.
1998 Bulgaria: November—Prince Charles of Britain visits Stolipino,
Romany quarter of Plovdiv. Czech Republic: 4–6 September—
International Romany cultural festival RESPECT held in Prague.