Society for Threatened Peoples appeals to the Conference of Ministers of the Interior: „Right to stay for persecuted Roma from Kosovo!” – „Help the persecuted Assyrian Chaldean Arameans from Iraq!”

Göttingen/Potsdam
Society for Threatened Peoples appeals to the Conference of Ministers of the Interior: „Right to stay for persecuted Roma from Kosovo!” – „Help the persecuted Assyrian Chaldean Arameans from Iraq!”

The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) will be demonstrating next Thursday during the autumn conference of the ministers of the interior and senators of the Federation and Provinces in Potsdam for the Christian Assyrian Chaldean Arameans fleeing from Iraq and the persecuted Roma from Kosovo.

Together with people affected the human rights organisation will hand over to the politicians an appeal signed by the German philosopher Ernst Tugendhat and the GfbV General Secretary, Tilman Zülch, for the admission of a contingent of Christians from Iraq and the right to stay for the Kosovo Roma who have been living in Germany for many years.

In view of the threatening situation for the Roma in Kosovo Tugendhat* and Zülch point to the responsibility of Germany towards the ethnic group of the Roma. They too were victims of the holocaust in the Third Reich. For the Christians from Iraq they (aber im dt. Text steht „Sie” NP) are calling for an end to all this hesitation and for concrete offers of help to be made.

We cordially invite you and your colleagues from the picture desks to our human rights campaign on

Thursday, 20th November at 11 a.m. opposite the Dorint Hotel in the Straße russische Kolonie in Potsdam.

The handing over of our appeal takes place at 12 midday.

If you have any questions please approach Jasna Causevic, GfbV Southeast Europe-consultant, at Tel. ++49 551 49906.

*Ernst Tugendhat, born in Brünn, comes from a German Jewish family. Most of his relatives were able to escape the holocaust. Tugendhat was a member of the executive committee of the GfbV and remains today one of the patrons. He has always supported the human rights work of the GfbV for the suppressed and still widely discriminated minority of the Roma. He emphasised in 1979: „In the Third Reich we Jews were seen as sub-humans. The gypsies are today not openly called gypsies, but they are still seen and treated as such.”