OP-ED
Halya Coynash: Terrifying precedent set by authorities’ response to violent anti-Roma pogrom
Residents search a house where a Roma family is thought to be living.
Disturbances on August 27 in Loshchynivka (Odesa oblast) have resulted in the targeted ethnic group ‘agreeing’ to leave the area, and being too fearful to even return to collect their possessions. There are differences from the pogroms of the past, but there are also some very worrying similarities, including how the authorities and law enforcement bodies reacted.
