European countries must acknowledge the Roma genocide

On the occasion of today’s commemoration of the “Pharrajimos’, the Roma genocide, I call on Council of Europe member states to make more vigorous efforts towards fully acknowledging the genocide and other past atrocities committed against the Roma. While some countries have in recent years taken steps in the right direction, trivialisation, minimisation and even sometimes denial of the Roma genocide during the Second World War and other atrocities are still common in a number of other countries. More...