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RACISM: Neo-Nazis Burned 2-Year Old Gypsy Girl in Arson Attack

RACISM: Neo-Nazis Burned 2-Year Old Gypsy Girl in Arson Attack. By Martina Kašpárková. What does RACISM mean?. T he belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others D iscrimination or prejudice based on race

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RACISM: Neo-Nazis Burned 2-Year Old Gypsy Girl in Arson Attack

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  1. RACISM: Neo-Nazis Burned 2-Year Old Gypsy Girl in Arson Attack By Martina Kašpárková

  2. What does RACISM mean? • The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others • Discrimination or prejudice based on race • Hatred or intolerance of another race or other races

  3. Gypsies becamea target for neo-Nazis • Many in the Czech Republic were shocked and outraged when neo-Nazis firebombed the home of a Romany family in north Moravia earlier last year. • The family’s youngest daughter Natálka suffered horrific burns in the attack, and was not expected to survive Family house in the eastern town of Vitkov after attack Natálka with her dad and little sister before attack

  4. Natálka Siváková suffered more than 80 percent burns on April 19 when a group of neo-Nazis threw three Molotov cocktails into her parents’ house in the eastern town of Vitkov. • No other child of her age with such vast injuries has ever survived in this country - said Michal Kadlcik, deputy head of the burns ward in a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava.

  5. Over the last eight months, Natálka has undergone around 20 major operations. • She was given a general anesthetic some 100 times to allow nurses at the intensive care unit of the children’s department at Ostrava hospital’s intensive care unit to change the dressing on her wounds.

  6. Three times doctors believed she was close to death, and the fact she has recovered enough to finally go home has been described as a miracle.

  7. Her mother Anna Siváková spoke to the media: “My feelings are simply indescribable…I’m just happy that things have worked out well and we can now go home. As for the doctors who looked after her, I’d love to give them all a big hug.”

  8. The family has bought a new house with money from a public collection in a village about 10 kilometres (six miles) from their former home. • Though Natálka is now at home and playing once again with her three older sisters, her medical treatment is a long way from over. In fact, she will bear the consequences of April’s attack for the rest of her life.

  9. The four neo-Nazis charged with firebombing Natálka’s family’s home are unlikely to appear in court before next spring. Three have confessed. • The medical insurer who has covered the cost of the child’s treatment says it will seek financial compensation from the perpetrators, as well as money to fund what is likely to be many years of medical care.

  10. The Czech Republic registered 11,746 Roma people in the official 2001 census, but the actual number of the largely impoverished Roma inhabitants is estimated at 250,000 to 300,000 in the ex-communist country of 10.3 million. • The Czech cabinet has pledged to step up the fight with extremism as one of its top priorities as anti-Roma violence is gaining momentum in the Czech Republic and as far-right extremists

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