These Roma Gypsies were residents of an infamous municipal building tower block with windows, which was the bone of controversy for many years. The building was knocked down in September 2010 and its residents forcibly evicted. The municipality refused to rehouse them. They live adjacent to the old building in homemade squats. Their shacks are surrounded by a vast municipal estate housing non-Roma. On the outskirts of Yambol Bulgaria..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A...
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These Roma Gypsies were residents of an infamous municipal building tower block with windows, which was the bone of controversy for many years. The building was knocked down in September 2010 and its residents forcibly evicted. The municipality refused to rehouse them. They live adjacent to the old building in homemade squats. Their shacks are surrounded by a vast municipal estate housing non-Roma. On the outskirts of Yambol Bulgaria..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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