Hindus Ask Denmark To Stop Roma Deportations

Hindus Ask Denmark To Stop Roma Deportations

Hindus are asking for immediate end to reportedly forcible mass deportations of Roma from Denmark.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that instead of cracking down and raids on minority Roma brothers and sisters and stereotyped approach, Denmark should come up with a comprehensive strategy to rehabilitate them and make them productive partners of the community.

Were not Roma Europeans? Was freedom of travel anywhere in European Union for all Europeans or it was just for “Europeans minus Roma”? Roma had reportedly been in Europe since ninth century CE, how long more they had to reside in Europe to prove that they were “real and equal” Europeans like any other, Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, asked.

This reported maltreatment of Roma in Denmark was simply inhuman and outside even European Union norms and should end, Rajan Zed argued.

Europe’s most persecuted and discriminated community, Roma were reportedly facing apartheid conditions in Europe. Roma reportedly regularly faced social exclusion, racism, substandard education, hostility, joblessness, rampant illness, inadequate housing, lower life expectancy, unrest, living on desperate margins, stereotypes, mistrust, rights violations, discrimination, marginalization, appalling living conditions, prejudice, human rights abuse, etc., Zed pointed out.

Rajan Zed stressed that Danish National Church (Folkekirken), which represented about 90 percent of the Danes, should also come out in support of the cause of this distinct ethnic and cultural group of Roma, because religion taught us to help the helpless.

Denmark is rated among nations with best quality of life, highest per capita income, and low unemployment. Its literacy rate is 100% and its hydrocarbon-rich economy is reported to be booming.

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