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
Romania: One Town Evicts the Roma in Its Midst
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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A Roma child poses as he sits on a couch, after several ramshackle houses were torn down by local authorities in Craica, a shantytown on the outskirts of Baia Mare, on June 14, 2012. Several rights groups accused the local authorities of "violating legislation and trampling the dignity of Roma inhabitants ... by forcibly evicting hundreds of them" and relocating them in buildings belonging to Cuprom, a copper processing plant closed down over pollution concerns.