Another Roma camp attacked and burned down in Ukraine, with police seeing only ‘hooliganism’

Monday, May 14, 2018 - 0:58 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

A permanent Roma settlement in Rudne, near Lviv, was burned down on 9 May, leaving a number of families homeless. It was the second attack on a Ukrainian Roma camp in less than a month, although this time nobody has publicly admitted to carrying it out.. While Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsperson clearly views this as a hate crime, and witnesses speak of a crowd of around 30 young masked thugs, the police have thus far only initiated an investigation into suspected ‘hooliganism’. …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group