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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > GERMANY MAKING PLANS TO LIQUIDATE GYPSY CAMPS, AGAIN
GERMANY MAKING PLANS TO LIQUIDATE GYPSY CAMPS, AGAIN
September 18 2010
Berlin, Germany – There are a few ethnic groups in the world that have for generations suffered under oppression from others. While suffering can’t really be equated or compared, those handful of groups have undoubtedly been at the 
receiving end of largely irrational anger and in some cases genocidal hatred. The Kurds in the Middle East, The Tutsi in Rwanda, the Armenians in Turkey, and the Jews throughout the world are just a few examples of ethnicities which have been targeted for oppression simply because of their ethnicity.
Likewise, the Romani people, better known as Gypsies, have suffered oppression virtually everywhere they have gone. Because they are culturally a wandering people, the Romani have become synonymous with such actions throughout Europe. For hundreds of years the Romani population has endured slavery and persecution. Something which was formalized in the concentration camps run by the Nazis in which as many as a million and half people met their own personal final solution. While we might have believed that much of that oppression has been left in the past, that we learned our lessons from the Nazis, recent purging efforts of Romani people throughout Europe have brought back the spectre of the past. Beginning in France, the newest liquidation of the Romani has now started to spread throughout the continent with Germany once again looking to clean house.
“We deny that we are making any attempts to purge any population in our country. We understand what the French are doing but these accusations that we are starting to do the same thing is utter nonsense. Such actions as are being undertaken by the French are illegal under our constitution,” said German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. “These comments from President Sarkozy are irrational and false. Chancellor Merkel has not commented on the Roma situation in our country and no plans are being made to purge these people from the camps. The camps are a part of the modern German landscape and the Romani people are comfortable there, and the German people are comfortable with them there.”
Sarkozy made a stir earlier this week when he stated that Chancellor Merkel had stated to him that she planned to repatriate the Roma just as the French have been doing.
“For the German people this idea of moving people around or pushing them out of the
country brings up a very dark spectre. The People of that country have very much
come to terms with what happened under Nazi rule but they are still extremely sensitive about those years and any reminder of that time is going to bring strong emotion,” said Scrape TV European analyst Gillian Weismann. “That is especially problematic for Merkel who has been having a lot of domestic issues outside this that are seriously threatening her rule. That means of course that someone like Sarkozy bringing these things into the light makes life a lot more difficult for her, which means any plans for the Roma are going to have to wait.”
Italy and Denmark have already begun liquidating their Romani camps.
“It’s unlikely that Merkel will wait forever. The Romani people don’t fit into modern 
German society and therefore need to be extracted but now she is in a sticky situation. There are really only two solutions; one is the get rid of them quietly, sneak them away in the middle of the night. The other would be to raise public ire about them and then not getting rid of them would be the political folly,” continued Weismann. “She could begin talking about how they are stealing German jobs or causing taxes to go up. In a population already very worried about the economy that would go over well. That would result in public anger and ultimately support for doing away with the population, and would also help secure Merkel’s future as Chancellor.”
Best estimates put the Romani population in Germany at about 70,000, likely quick work for the Germans.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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