In the past 10 years everybody in Slovakia has become poor, but the Roma are the most poor. Under socialism most Roma people worked in heavy industry, but now we are 90-percent unemployed. The government tries to make us scapegoats, and there is a growing racist movement. We have to fight back. People here now have more freedom to travel abroad, but that's the only thing that's better.
Life has become much harder-there is no social security.
The Czech Republic is being walked like a poodle by international monopolies and has been dragged into the aggressive NATO alliance. He was particularly outraged at the campaign against Yugoslavia. I'm Serb but Croats, Bosnians, Albanians are my brothers. We are a multi-ethnic country. They call Milosevic a nationalist but all he wants is an independent Yugoslavia.