Dorin Cioabă, the self-proclaimed international “king” of the Roma, is in the running for a new term as head of the executive of the International Roma Union (UIR). From this position he announces that he wants India to recognize the Roma minority, he writes Council Tower.
“We will send an ultimatum to the Indian government, to recognize us as a nation living in the diaspora, and if they do not, as they have been promising for decades, we will go before an international court, because we want to have official recognition: that we are part of the Indian people. we want to go to India, we don’t want to pressure the Indian government to help us, but we want to have recognition, to stop being nobody’s people: the Romanians tell us that we are not them, the British – that we are not them. everyone says it’s them, when we’re bad, everyone chases us away, “said Dorin Ciobă.
6 years ago, the Indian Foreign Minister declared that Roma were “children of India” and that about 20 million Roma needed to be documented.
“He then told us that he was about to recognize us, but nothing concrete is being done, I don’t know why he is being postponed”, Ciobă emphasizes.
