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Romania: One Town Evicts the Roma in Its Midst

June 21, 20120
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A Roma child runs as a bulldozer prepares to tear down a ramshackle house in Craica, a shantytown on the outskirts of Baia Mare, Romania, on June 14, 2012.

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Rights groups say authorities in the northwestern Romanian city of Baia Mare forcibly evicted hundreds of ethnic Roma, or Gypsy, people and relocated them to a run-down chemical plant where many fell ill

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IpuIpu

You do not know what it means word  gypsy in Romania.
They will do  not work( job). They are taught to steal at small age,  to deceive Romanian people. They look  to find lice.   To be included  into special relief programs.