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TEHRAN, July 01 -Blood-stained clothes, shoes and kids' toys lie scattered in several old tents where a Roma man was murdered in an attack on a forest camp in western Ukraine last week.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Blood-stained clothes, shoes and kids' toys lie scattered in several old tents where a Roma man was murdered in an attack on a forest camp in western Ukraine last week.
More than a dozen Roma people were forced to flee the camp outside the city of Lviv after about 10 masked assailants armed with batons and knives attacked them late Saturday.
They killed one and injured four, including a child, officials said.
It was the latest in a string of brutal attacks against Ukraine's 260,000-strong Roma community over recent months. But it was the first such fatal attack. The 24-year-old man died from stab wounds.
Six attacks on Roma settlements have been reported in the capital Kiev and the west of the country since April.
Those wounded in the latest assault received temporary shelter from Lviv authorities. They refused to speak to journalists.
But with the help of a priest who takes care of the local Roma community, AFP reporters reached another camp hidden in the forest on the other side of the city.
Misha, 34, a member of one of four large families that live here, said that their camp too came under attack in early May.
"First they hurled stones. Then they attacked with sticks. They beat everyone, even children," the dark-haired lean man said.
"They burned our camp. The children hid like mice in the bushes," said Klara, a 39-year-old mother of eight, with tears in her eyes as she breastfed a child.
Residents of her 10-tent camp repeatedly shift location to avoid possible assaults.
Source:AFP
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