"Gyp*ies are fundamentally degenerate," shouted neo-fascists from the far-right Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) group during an anti-Roma demonstration in the centre of Budapest last Friday (29 May).
The unauthorised march was triggered by the stabbing of two soccer fans in a fight between rival groups of young people.
Anti-Roma slogans and abus...
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Margareta Matache is a Roma rights activist and scholar currently working as an instructor and director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.
Jacqueline Bhabha is a professor of the practice of health and human rights at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. She is the director of research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University's only university-wide human rights centre.
Margareta Matache is a Roma rights activist and scholar currently working as an instructor and director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.