The Roma Issue and the Slovak Republic

Introduction According to the latest census conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (2011) in 2011, the population of Slovakia is 105,738, accounting for 2% of the total population. However, this number distorts the reality. Surveying such a large population, the whole country has its drawbacks and problems. More than 7% of the population has unknown nationality and nearly 400,000 citizens. In Slovak (2013) Roma Community ATLAS project estimate, Roma minorities account for approximately 402,000, slightly exceeding 7% of the total population of the Republic.

In the Republic of Slovakia, Bratislava-based Human Rights Alliance Federation (LHRA) is a partner of the European Rome Center for Human Rights (ERRC) and serves as a legal representative for the continuing threat of the Roma family in Zawolzka Vess I will. In May 2007, five masked men attacked the Salkej family. This was also attacked in a temporary shelter in the family premises in 2003. According to the report, the attacker beat the family including the mother and the child and destroyed the furniture with the wooden stick and the iron bar. The Bratislava Court confirmed that the family had the right to remain in the temporary residence of the land listed in the LHRA attorney's petition.

Nonetheless, a small number of ethnic groups suffer discrimination and oppressions of the same degree as Rome. During the initial Czechoslovak republic, many Roman families were forced to settle and destroy their nomadic lifestyle. During the country of Slovakia, they were sent to concentration camps without mercy. In Communist Czechoslovakia, Slovakian Rome was unintentionally assimilated, relocated to state mines, resettled, deprived of cultural and national rights. All these things have resulted in serious cultural and social decline in Roman society.

Since the federalization in 1968, Czechoslovakia divided the citizenship of the Czech socialist republic or the Slovak socialist republic (the term "socialism" was deleted from the two names shortly after the velvet revolution). However, this distinction has little impact on the lives of citizens. On January 1, 1993, all Czechoslovak citizens automatically become citizens of the Czech Republic or the Slovak Republic based on their previous citizenship, permanent residence, place of birth, family relations, work and other standards It was. In addition, people have a year to apply for other citizenship under certain conditions.