Hindus Want Europe to Wholeheartedly Welcome Roma from Bulgaria, Romania

Letters to the Editor | January 3, 2014, Friday // 18:35

Hindus want Europe to welcome Roma brothers and sisters with open arms if they decide to migrate fleeing discrimination and poverty in Romania and Bulgaria.

Since Romanians and Bulgarians could work anywhere in European Union starting January one, host nations should be more sympathetic to Roma coming from these countries and give them all the help they needed to settle down in new home.

Europe needs to wake up and shed apparent xenophobia on Roma issue. Instead of demonizing, marginalizing, dehumanizing and persecuting Roma; Europe should do something concrete to end Roma apartheid. European politicians need to exhibit a strong will, commitment, intention and responsibility to bring concrete and lasting results on the reality of the Roma population, instead of just weaving dreams in capital boardrooms.

Europe’s religious leaders and religious groups, especially His Holiness Pope Francis, should take-up the cause of Roma people and raise the issue of their continuous maltreatment; as religion taught us to plead for the oppressed, stand with the poor, and seek justice for those whom God loved and too often the world overlooked.

Alarming condition of Roma was a social blight for Europe and the rest of the world as they reportedly regularly faced social exclusion, racism, substandard education, hostility, joblessness, rampant illness, inadequate housing, lower life expectancy, unrest, living on desperate margins, language barriers, stereotypes, mistrust, rights violations, discrimination, marginalization, appalling living conditions, prejudice, human rights abuse, racist slogans on Internet, unusually high unemployment rates, etc.

References to Roma people in Europe, who number around 15-million, reportedly went as far back as ninth century CE.



Rajan Zed, Hindu statesman, President of Universal Society of Hinduism

We need your support so Novinite.com can keep delivering news and information about Bulgaria! Thank you!

Letters to the Editor » Be a reporter: Write and send your article
Tags: Bulgaria, Romania, Roma

Advertisement
Advertisement
Bulgaria news Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency - www.sofianewsagency.com) is unique with being a real time news provider in English that informs its readers about the latest Bulgarian news. The editorial staff also publishes a daily online newspaper "Sofia Morning News." Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency - www.sofianewsagency.com) and Sofia Morning News publish the latest economic, political and cultural news that take place in Bulgaria. Foreign media analysis on Bulgaria and World News in Brief are also part of the web site and the online newspaper. News Bulgaria