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Name: Christopher Huvos on Feb 15, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Luiza Osnovikova on Feb 16, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Gina Csanyi-Robah on Feb 17, 2013Comments: As executive director of the Roma Community Centre in Toronto, I attended a meeting with Ambassador László Pordány at the Hungarian House in May 2011. Two months prior, his wife Maria Csikos had contacted me and asked if there were any opportunities for her to meet the Hungarian Roma community here as she had never met any Romani children in her life. She was proud to share that she enjoyed working with marginalized children in South Africa where she had been recently stationed with her husband for a number of years. Thus, she felt that meeting Romani children for the first time would be a meaningful experience for her. She is a sweet and kind, elderly Hungarian woman. When we met, Pordány was adamant that Hungarian Roma do not suffer human rights abuse and that they have come to Canada only due their 'economic situation' in Hungary. This same suggestion was made to me in a few months prior by Zoltan Balog, then Hungarian Minister of Social Inclusion, when we met at the Roma Community Centre. Due to this prior meeting, I came prepared to the meeting with Pordány knowing that he too would deny the true problem of the unrestrained war of hatred festering in Hungary. I showed Pordany a video clip from the neo-Nazi siege of the village of Gyongyospata during April 2011 following a Jobbik party rally, and inquired as to why the Hungarian police didn't intervene. His only response to me was "well, they are gone now". I responded with " yes, it only took three weeks and the intervention of the intervention of the Red Cross and Amnesty International before the police would moved towards ending the terror of Roma in Gyongyospata". Minister Jason Kenney met with these refugee families from this village at the Roma Community Centre in October 2011. Last year, April 2012, Ambassador Pordany attended the film screening in Ottawa of Karl Nerenberg's film about Roma refugees in Canada entitled "Never Come Back". During the Q & A following the film, a representative from the Hungarian Embassy went up on stage with a prepared speech from which he shared that the Hungarian Roma refugees have come to Canada solely because of economic conditions in Hungary. Never once did the words systemic discrimination, endemic hatred, or human rights violations ever emerge from his mouth. This February 2012, Hungary was found guilty by the International court of Human Rights of systemic discrimination from it its practice of systematically placing Roma children into schools for those with special needs. László Pordány is a Fidesz party puppet and continues to lie to Canadians to cover up what the truth is in Hungary for the Roma minority. I support this petition 100%.Flag
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Name: Dr Jim Sugiyama on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: GWYNETH ROBB on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Elizabeth on Feb 17, 2013Comments: WWII repeats itself - except for the Roma of Hungary, the Holocaust never ended. Do not support this outrageous and shameful whitewash of today's persecution and discrimination.Flag
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Valery Novoselsky on Feb 17, 2013
Comments: Respectfully yours, Mr. Valery Novoselsky, Executive Editor, Roma Virtual Network. http://www.romavirtualnetwork.orgFlag -
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Name: Anna Marie Stenberg on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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William Lazarus Bila on Feb 17, 2013
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Name: Moris Farhi on Feb 17, 2013Comments: Hungary's policies are shaming humanity.Flag
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Name: Morgan Ahern on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Martin Klein, Professor Emeritus, History, Toronto on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Delia Grigore on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Swaneagle on Feb 17, 2013Comments: The shift towards right wing bigotry in North American and Europe is of major concern. For the sake of a healthy children's future this must not happen. All of life is at stake.Flag
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Name: Katie Nelson on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Katie Nelson on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Roma Club Foundation on Feb 17, 2013Comments: from Hungary www.romaclub.huFlag
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Name: Viola Razavi on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Galicinski, Jen on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Orsós Jánosné on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Zoe on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Cynthia Levine-Rasky on Feb 17, 2013Comments: Anti-Roma racism in Hungary cannot be denied. Any effort to do so is consistent with the effects of anti-Roma racism. Here in Canada, we see through the political gamesmanship of Hungarian and Canadian political leaders whose agendas have led not only to egregious treatment of Roma in Hungary (and elsewhere in the EU), but also to refugee determination policies that deny their persecution. Anyone reviewing NGO reports and news stories (eg. EU Union for Fundamental Rights, politics.hu, European Roma Information Office, Roma Daily News, RomediaFoundation, RomaniCriss.org, Romnews Network, Roma Buzz Monitor, Roma Virtual Network, and the European Roma and Travellers Forum) will understand that what the Roma are up against. That one of these barriers is governments themselves is astonishing. Ironically, it serves as proof of the very problem they wish to deny.Flag
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Name: Michael Tilleard on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Steven Baum on Feb 17, 2013Comments: The levels of antisemitic incidents in Hungary have been dramatically rising . --skbaum editor journal for the study of antisemitismFlag
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Elle Gallagher on Feb 17, 2013
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Name: Nathalie Ricard on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Gwendolyn Albert on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Quintin Bart on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: August Guillaume on Feb 17, 2013Comments: I feel sorry for all the thousands of Hungarians that are peace loving and democratic.Flag
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Name: Brendan Ellenor on Feb 17, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Ricardo Gustavo Espeja on Feb 18, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Csilla Kalocsai on Feb 18, 2013Comments:Flag
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Elias Tawil on Feb 18, 2013
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Name: Laura Slifka on Feb 18, 2013Comments: Please stop this madness in Hungary. It is a dangerous road thje Hungarians are taking in their stance towards the Roma. Disgusting at best, action needs to happen before we have another genocide in Europe!Flag
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Joe Jozsef Bari on Feb 18, 2013
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Name: Karesz Baksa on Feb 18, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Jen on Feb 18, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Marcel Reginatto on Feb 18, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Zoltan Baranyi on Feb 18, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Laszlo Sarkozi on Feb 18, 2013Comments: I hate racists.Flag
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Name: Allen Gunderson on Feb 18, 2013Comments: I watched Ambassador Pordany's interview with SUN TV last February and found him to be evasive, vague and incoherent. Even US diplomats have recently accused Hungary of blatant antisemitism and anti-Roma racism... completely contradicting Pordany's denials. Meanwhile, news footage of uniformed Fascist militants in Hungary's streets puts a lie to Pordany's claimsFlag
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Name: Anthea Darychuk on Feb 18, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Feb 18, 2013Comments: If their expression of dissent has no substance, to the reigning government, then why fear them, with expressions of hostility? The world is now getting curious...Flag
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Name: Dafina Savic on Feb 18, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Martha McGloin on Feb 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Dr. Meir Kende on Feb 19, 2013Comments: Can Mr. Pordany read at all? But, sure he has the correct position.Flag
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Name: Gabor Szekeres on Feb 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Justin Douglas on Feb 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Mohan Doss on Feb 19, 2013Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul St. Clair on Feb 19, 2013Comments:Flag