AL JAZEERA: …The Roma, or Gypsies, account for 9 per cent of Bulgaria’s population of 7.4 million, are poorly integrated and often have tense relations with their neighbours.
They live mostly in depressed areas with even higher rates of poverty and unemployment and lower levels of education than the national average.
Volen Siderov, the party’s leader, who is running for president on October 23, called for the death penalty to be brought back, for Roma “ghettos to be dismantled” and for the formation of militias… (more)
