Bulgarian nationalists stage anti-Roma rally

[pampango]

Source: Aljazeera

Hundreds of Bulgaria's nationalist groups staged a large anti-Roma rally in the capital city as the government called for an emergency meeting to resolve tensions. Several hundred supporters of the far-right Ataka party gathered in front of the presidential palace in T-shirts that read "I don't want to live in a Gypsy state" and with a banner saying "Gypsy criminality is a danger to the state".

The Roma, or Gypsies, account for 9 per cent of Bulgaria's population of 7.4 million, are poorly integrated and often have tense relations with their neighbours. They live mostly in depressed areas with even higher rates of poverty and unemployment and lower levels of education than the national average.

Volen Siderov, the party's leader, who is running for president on October 23, called for the death penalty to be brought back, for Roma "ghettos to be dismantled" and for the formation of militias.

Experts say that public frustration against corruption, a widening gap between rich and poor and the weakness of the justice system, has helped to turn people against them, as well as against Bulgaria's Turkish minority.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2011/10/2011101173254692117.html

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Sounds familiar. Nationalists (far-right as usual) counter public frustration with corruption and a widening income inequality by finding some "others" for people to focus their anger against.

[Kolesar]

1. Sounds like Arizona racists and Nazis

remember the "minutemen"?

[AzNick]

2. And I got heat when I said the Romas were a Romanian problem

That the Romanians refused to take care of and let other nations take care of for them.

[lunasun]

3. finding some "others" for people to focus their anger against?Hey it works here in USA