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Source: Reuters
Norway to pay reparations to Roma for racist policies and suffering under Nazis
Prime minister Erna Solberg apologises for discrimination which led to dozens of Roma dying in Nazi death camps after being denied re-entry into Norway
Reuters
Wednesday 8 April 2015 22.32 EDT
Prime Minister Erna Solberg has apologised for discrimination against Norways Roma population before and after the second world war, calling it a dark part of the countrys history, and promised to pay reparations.
The Scandinavian countrys small Roma minority, of around 500, have campaigned since the 1990s for compensation for their mistreatment.
Solbergs comments Wednesday followed the release of a government-commissioned report in February that detailed how Norwegian Roma citizens in the 1930s were denied re-entry after travels abroad. It named 62 people who ultimately perished in Nazi death camps following the rejections.
Survivors of the death camps were also denied re-entry to Norway after the war for up to 10 years, the report by the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities showed.
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