Three senators for the Independents (SNK), today visited Bedriska, a neighbourhood in Ostrava, notorious for conflicts between majority society and Romanies, to check whether racism exists there.

In a letter to the representatives of the International Contact Group the President of the European Roma and Travellers Forum, Mr. Rudko Kawczynski, reiterated his demand for the inclusion of the Kosovo Roma in the status negotiations process. According to Mr. Kawczynski, the new negotiations are chance for a truly inclusive process taking into account the rights and the interests of all Kosovo people.

More than 100 Serbian Gypsies have crossed the border illegally into neighboring Romania in recent days and filed applications for asylum claiming they were being subjected to abuse and attacks at home, police said Wednesday.

Ludmila Svecova will take up the post of Romany coordinator in the Central Bohemian town of Kladno on Wednesday, thus replacing outgoing coordinator Anton Lukac, Kladno town hall spokesman Petra Kucerova told CTK today.

The Tulej Romany family whom the town hall in Vsetin, north Moravia, moved to a dilapidated house in Cechy pod Kosirem, south Moravia, last year, will have to move from the house that is unhabitable, daily Pravo writes today.

The Czech police have accused two extremists detained during an ultra-right wingers' demonstration in Vlasim on Saturday, local police spokeswoman Sona Budska told CTK today.

'I told them not to go to Ireland, that it would be a disaster - and now they are all coming back again,' says Anna Demian, matriarch of the Tileagd Roma community to which about 100 men, women and children have just returned from an encampment on the M50 roundabout at Ballymun, Dublin.