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The U.N. has called on Ukraine to take “immediate action” to end what it called the “systematic persecution” of the country’s Roma minority population.

“We unequivocally condemn these heinous acts of intimidation and violence against members of the Roma minority in Ukraine,” a panel of UN experts said in a statement on July 18.

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