Hungarian Roma: Young Children

Laszlo Sarkozi Dept: After exiting the store in the city of Szeksz rd with his wife, Ilona, and three young children, Sarkozi, a Hungarian Roma, says he was swarmed by knife-wielding members of the far-right Hungarian Guard militia, according to The Star. The incident was not uncommon for Sarkozi, who was a secretary for a Hungarian Roma self-government body. Public beatings and humiliations had been embedded in his daily existence since childhood and the vicious attack three summers ago outside a supermarket in southwestern Hungary is a lasting, grave memory for Laszlo Sarkozi. Some of them had knives and some of them had guns, Sarkozi, now 35, recalls. They beat us and the children. They held the gun to my wife s head while I was beaten. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.