Italy Passes Law To Fingerprint All Roma

Via NewsCloud via Indymedia: “In their election campaign earlier this year, Berlusconi and his allies had already made clear their intention of deporting tens of thousands of Roma back to Romania and former Yugoslavia. In mid-June a March decisions by Italy’s highest appeal court was released stating that “it is acceptable to discriminate against Roma” because the court found that “they are thieves”. Following the release of the court rulling, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, announced that a file is to be drawn up containing a DNA data base with digital fingerprints and photos of all Roma irregardless of their citizenship. Unicef has protested that this is discriminatory and a violation of the UN’s Declaration of the Rights of the Child.” — Link

What if a database of an entire people was created by a government in order to aid their forced removal and no one paid any attention?Technorati Tags: human rights, Roma, fascism, Berlusconi

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