Talk:Trebišov

Roma riots

I tried to make this new section NPOV, but more citations are needed. My biggest objection to the past version was that it referred to the Roma people as Gypsies. This is considered offensive by many Roma readers. The riots were described in a sensational way, though there were no deaths and no serious injuries. Please look at Wikipedia's articles about various riots before using strong language. Finally, not all the Roma from Trebisov rioted and not all of them are unemployed. We should not use unfounded racial stereotypes in Wikipedia. Tankred (talk) 17:06, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

What even is this? 'After the fall of communism ... city became the site of a kind of ghetoo'? Are you being serious?!

After the fall of Communism some factories in the region were shut down and the city became the site of a kind of ghetto for approximately 4,000 Romani people who moved in from the villages to be able to receive unemployment benefits. In the spring of 2004, in order to induce the unemployed in Slovakia to search for a job, the Slovak government immediately reduced all social benefits for long-term unemployed in Slovakia by half. This led to rioting among the Trebišov Roma population in which several shops were looted. The riot leaders claimed the Roma were starving. After three days riot police and army motorized infantry reestablished order using a water cannon against a stone-throwing crowd. In an attempt to calm down the situation, the government offered free firewood collection opportunity and free food stamps to compensate the unemployed for the loss of monetary aid.

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