The Balkan Chronicle

Local Croatian Officials Encourage the Anti-Roma Discrimination in Skabrnja

It is still fresh in the memories of the people what Croatian attitudes towards Roma during WWII did, when most of the Romas were eliminated together with other minorities in concentration camps established by the Croatian fascists. So when events like May 1 expulsion of few Roma families in the Croatian municipality of Zadar occur, the memories of that not so distant Croatian past become all too vivid.

It was the latest of several anti-Roma actions or statements in Croatia, when local vigilantes led by the major of the town of Siroka Kula have set up a "headquarters" to organize "the protection of local population from Roma and their cattle.

ArcelorMitall trickery with victims of Serbian concentration camps in Bosnia

ArcelorMitall renounced its earlier promise to finance the building of the Memorial center at their site of notorious Serbian-run concentration camp for Muslims in Omarska (Prijedor). After the war ArcelorMitall bought old mining complex Omarska, which was used as a concentration camp for Muslim civilians during the Serbian aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To make things worse, ArcelorMitall now even forbids access to the site to victims of the horrendous Serbian crimes committed there.

The adisappointment over such ArcelorMitall trickery is growing and various Bosnian organizations across the world issued a statement of concern for their actions. In a joint statement all those organization urge the International Corporation to reconsider its goals and fulfill its earlier p...

Racial profiling of Turks helped neo-Nazis in Germany to evade detection

German officials have admitted that widespread bias and racial profiling of ethnic Turks by German police and intelligence in the EU's most populous country may have helped a deadly neo-Nazi cell to operate under the radar for more than a decade.

Wolfgang Thierse, vice president of the Bundestag, the German parliament, from the main opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD), criticized German police and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC), Germany's domestic intelligence service, for acting with prejudice against immigrants, especially Turks, on Wednesday.

Talking to the visiting Turkish delegation at the Bundestag, Thierse said, "I have deep concerns that both the police force and the OPC may have acted with bias and prejudice in investigating the neo-Nazi m...