A FILM ON ANTI-ROMA RACISM IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Jan 13 2014 Jan 13 2014 London, UK, Anti-Roma demonstrations
A short (just under five minutes) but hard-hitting
video which was made by Barbora Cernusakova and Phillip Lowman for Europe Roma
International (ERI) to show at a parliamentary meeting on 28 October 2013 can
now be viewed online.
Captive Audience includes disturbing footage from a
summer of far-Right anti-Roma mobilisations in the Czech Republic, focusing on
demonstrations in Ostrava, Duchcov and Vitkov.
It includes an interview with
the mother of Natalka Kudrikova who was three years old in 2009 when she
received 80 per cent burns in a neo-Nazi arson attack on her home.
Captive
Audience is a concept borrowed from Hungarian NGOs who used it in their
European Court case against the far-Right paramilitaries of the Hungarian
Guard.
It was (successfully) argued then that the purpose of the
paramilitaries’ incursions into Roma neighbourhoods was to keep the Roma in
captivity – preventing them from going to work or to school, entrapping them in
their homes and giving them no choice but to listen to racist provocations and
threats to kill.
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