MINELRES: Romania: Ethnic Minorities Divers Bulletin no. 15 (98) / April 26, 2004
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Divers Bulletin no. 15 (98) / April 26, 2004
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NAZI-HUNTER ORGANIZATION CRITICIZES ROMANIA'S LACK OF PURSUIT OF WAR
CRIMINALS
UDMR INITIATED TALKS AS "DIALOGUE FOR FUTURE "
ROMA ETHNICS MILITATE FOR WOMEN�S PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS
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NAZI-HUNTER ORGANIZATION CRITICIZES ROMANIA'S LACK OF PURSUIT OF WAR
CRIMINALS
TEL-AVIV � The Simon Wiesenthal Center said in its annual report on 21
April that Romania has failed to take practical steps to investigate war
crimes and refused to cancel pardons granted in 1997 and 1998 to two
former colonels convicted for involvement in those crimes after the end
of World War II, RFE/RL reported. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center's Israel branch, said he is especially concerned by
the lack of response from Romanian Prosecutor-General Ilie Botos to the
center's request to annul the pardons granted to Colonels Radu Dinulescu
and Gheorghe Petrescu. Last year in Romania, the center launched
Operation Last Chance, which offered a $10,000 reward to anyone
providing information leading to the prosecution of war criminals. A
similar operation exposed several war criminals in the Baltic states.
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UDMR INITIATED TALKS AS "DIALOGUE FOR FUTURE "
TIRGU MURES � On April 16th, at the headquarters of UDMR Executive
Presidium there took place the first sessions of the talks held with the
Hungarian traditional churches, the civil society organizations and with
the Union�s platforms, sessions initiated by UDMR chairman Marko Bela,
gathered under the title "Dialogue for future", according to Rompres.
The Friday�s meeting was attended by the Hungarian Cultural Association
from Romania, the Association of the Hungarian Workers and the
Conference of the Hungarian Youth from Romania. UDMR�s membership plans
in the following three months to consult 30 civic organizations, ten
Magyar traditional churches and 11 youth organizations. Part in the same
action called "Dialogue for future ", UDMR plans to deploy meetings with
the National Council of the Hungarians from Transylvania (CNMT) and with
the National Szeckler Council (CNS), stated Magyar leader Marko Bela. In
turn, he rejected any meeting wit h the Hungarian Civic Union, claiming
it self-declared as a political party and would take part in the
elections.
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ROMA ETHNICS MILITATE FOR WOMEN�S PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS
BUCHAREST � Representatives of Roma ethnicity from Romania expressed
their wish for a larger number of women belonging to this minority to
participate in the political life, as it could be grasped at the
conference "Positive practices to promote Roma and minority women in the
political and democratic processes: Romania�s experience in OSCE
context".
The conference aimed at challenging Roma and non-Roma political leaders
in the countries involved in the Stability Pact from South �East Europe
to grant eligible seats in the lists of the runners for elections, women
at large, but mostly to the women belonging to ethnical minorities. The
participants debated on tangible ways by means of which Roma political
parties can promote women of such ethnicity both in the party
structures, as well as in elections. In addition, it was also presented
an action plan on improving the condition of the Roma ethnics living in
OSCE area, drawn up by this organization in December last year.
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