Extremism leads to Nationwide Protesting of the Roma in the Czech Republic

As Krista told us in class the discrimination against the Roma in the Czech Republic has risen to an all time high. They are being forcefully evicted from their homes, segregated in schools and therefore getting less than standard educations, and fired from or denied jobs. Individual acts of violence against the Roma have also become much more extreme targeting not only adults but whole families. Recently molotov cocktail bombs were thrown into the home of a Roma male with more than seven of his family members still in the home. One of their children, a two-year-old girl, was burned on over 80% of her body and is currently in a coma . The Roma community and other social civic activists are marching in a nationwide protest against the terror being reigned on the Roma in the Czech Republic. It is definitely appaling that these people are being discriminated against in such a way and that they have been unsuccessful in trying to protect themselves from the government who should be helping, not hurting them. However I think that they are taking a step forward by coming together because with unity comes progress and results. By protesting they are sending a sign to those who would be against them that they are not giving up and are willing to fight to gain their freedom from terror and violence. Hopefully in time the Roma will finally get to live with rights equal to any citizens in Eastern Europe but until then, all they can do is march and persevere.