Sinti and Romani shared exactly the same destiny in Nazi-Germany like the Jews. If any commitment to justness were the driving force for the enacting of this law, in face of the situation in eastern European countries this possibility of naturalization should had been extended to Sinti and Romani also. By Michael Stade
It is very frustrating to see not any chance to prevent Romani refugees from getting violated in basic human rights. The current German law together with executive order is very clear: Serbian Romani people (like those from Kosovo) have not any asylum right in Germany. The reasoning in the asylum rejections did not ignore the fact that Romani are hunted by violent racists in their countries of origin and that the police there often rejected to prosecute the offenders; that indeed Romani people are often tortured in police custody; that the Serbian government had deported many Romani (often without assigning shelter) by clearing illegal shanty towns in Belgrade; that equal rights for Romani are a matter of paper only. But the asylum rejection letters attested the Serbian government truly efforts to overbear these grievances, so that abuses and violations until murder of Romani should be seen as individual cases only, not falling under the human right of asylum.
The same tone we find concerning medical care. Because it is not completely impossible for Romani to get access to health care in Serbia, there is no reason to grant any permission to stay in Germany on this issue, despite it is well known, that Romani died in front of hospitals on
a simple flu, only because they had no money.
Regularly these rejections are coming along with a classification as „evidently unfounded“ („offensichtlich unbegründet“). This classification enables the officials to achieving the deportation in a shortcut way, confining the rights to take legal actions.
What is obvious in these cases is a different scale, which is adapted to the value of the live of a Romani compared to the value of the live of a German. Keep in mind, what happened after the Love-Parade accident in Duisburg. These different standards are also to be detected in public reactions on the Costa ocean liner accident comparing to the Thousands of dead cases of refugees in the Mediterranean see each year. These different standards are not only giving proof of the deep-seated racism in government and public mind of Germany and also other European countries.
They are especially a shame for Germany, which is playing international a godfather of human rights, lying to other countries, that it had learned the lessons of the Holocaust.
In aspiration of the German reunion the last GDR government enacted a law, to recognize Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union in the same way as citizens of German heritage to become citizens in Germany. This law was adopted by the German law after reunion until today. It was a signal to the world aimed to indicate a change of mind after the brutal persecution of Jews of the Nazi-Germany. But the actual deportation policy against Romani people unveils this enacting only as a clever move of deception of the international public, aimed to create a friendly climate for the German reunion.
Sinti and Romani shared exactly the same destiny in Nazi-Germany like the Jews. If any commitment to justness were the driving force for the enacting of this law, in face of the situation in eastern European countries this possibility of naturalization should had been extended to Sinti and Romani also.
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Heuchlerischer Umgang mit der Vergangenheit – die deutsche Abschiebepolitik gegenüber Roma-Flüchtlingen
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