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During this day, which is commemorated in countries of the five continents, we proceeded to read the 'Manifesto April 8', the interpretation of the hymn 'Gelem-Gelem' and a floral offering on the river.
José Ballesta: "Today the importance of banishing the stereotypes that separate us, to celebrate everything that unites us as a society and recognize the Roma culture and its history, making a call for attention against discrimination."
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, accompanied by the councilor for Social Rights and Development Cooperation, Conchita Ruiz, and the president of the Gypsy Secretariat Foundation, Jesús Salmerón, presided today in the Plenary Hall the reception on the occasion of the International Day of the Gypsy Village, where more than 200 children were present.
"Today the importance of banishing the stereotypes that separate us, to celebrate all that unites us as a society and recognize the Roma culture and its history, making a call for attention against discrimination that, in many cases, still suffers this community, "said the mayor, who added that" Murcia, since its founding a place of tolerance and respect, in which there have been no differences between them, a model of coexistence that we must claim as an essential part of our idiosyncrasy " .
During this day, which is commemorated in countries of the five continents, we proceeded to read the 'Manifesto April 8: Social Advances, recognition and participation'.
The text recalls the 40th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution: "40 years after its approval, we can congratulate ourselves on the changes it has promoted in the Roma community.
It is undeniable that living conditions have improved, but the inequality gap persists. "
The manifesto claimed greater "participation of Roma people in all areas of the public sphere, where we are seeing great progress;
advances that can only occur when people are guaranteed their basic social rights: quality education, decent employment and decent housing. "
The act ended with the interpretation of the hymn 'Gelem-Gelem', instituted with the gypsy flag, at the Rome / Gypsy World Congress held on May 8, 1971 in London.
Later, in memory of the 500,000 Roma victims who lost their lives in the Nazi concentration camps, a wreath was held in a ceremony in which petals and flowers were thrown into the Segura waters, in a traditional ritual that reminds the walking and the transhumance of the gypsies as a symbolic representation of the flow of the rivers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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