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Swiss inflicted ‘crime against humanity’ on itinerant groups
GENEVA, Feb 21 – Switzerland acknowledged today that the past forced removal of children from the nomadic Yenish and Sinti communities amounted to a “crime against humanity.” It is the first time that Switzerland has made such an acknowledgement, with Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider calling it “a very dark page in our history.” The Swiss government estimated that around 2,000 people were removed from their families and placed elsewhe…
According to today's understanding, the coercive measures against the Jenians were a crime against humanity. A legal opinion comes to this conclusion. Now the Federal Council must also let its promises be followed by deeds.
Switzerland recognized this Thursday, 20 February, that Swiss programmes of assistance and extra-family placements that have targeted the Yenishes and the Manushes for decades constitute a "crime against humanity", estimated at about 2,000 such placements.
From 1926 to 1973, the children of the drivers were placed abroad. A legal opinion now classifys the facts of the case.
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