Published 2015-09-30 19:29
Pink Taikon saw his sister to wear out in the fight for the rights of Roma. Now, the film about the writer and civil rights activist Catherine Taikon.
Pink Taikon saw his sister to wear out in the fight for the rights of Roma. Now, the film about the writer and civil rights activist Catherine Taikon.
Katarina Taikon has been called Sweden’s own Martin Luther King. Fearless, tireless. On Friday, the premier of Lawen Mohtadis and Gellert Tamas movie “Taikon”, which tells of the Swedish Roma’s difficult history and Catherine Taikon measures to break down prejudice and exclusion.
It is a painful reminder of the Swedes people home deceit. Roma as our elected continued to disappoint well into the 60s. World War II was then long since ended. Industry and prosperity grew. In the suburb shining stainless steel sinks, but clumps of trees next to the Roma still lived in tents tone.
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In the White Paper as the government gave out last autumn described the then Minister for Integration Erik Ullenhag extent of the abuse. If rasideologin. If Roma mothers refused maternity and health care and sterilisations to Roma genes would be passed on: “We have a story to be ashamed of when it comes to Sweden Roma. Now, let us ensure that we have a future to be proud of. “
Everything she did was for our benefit. Today the Roma live in Sweden in the house and they have the right to go to school. Though you still can not say that you called Taikon and get a job, many Roma have changed their name
debater and silversmith Rosa Taikon grew as his little sister Katarina up in tents. Their mother died when they were small. As an adult read Katarina Taikon by chance an excerpt of the UN Declaration on Human Rights, that everyone has the right to housing, education and work.
– She said: “Yes, but Pink it has of course not our cousins and aunts and uncles, they live’re still in camps in Ekstubben, Hammarby plot, Flatenbadet, everywhere, we really must do something about. “It was after she put in the time and wrote his book.
Catherine Taikon debuted with “Gypsy Woman” in 1963, an inside depiction of the Roma living conditions. When the first book on Katitzi was released six years later, she has long been a hardworking opinion leaders.
– Catherine tore himself and rarely saw their children when they were small. I think it worried her, but she was forced, says Rosa Taikon when we meet at a hotel before the movie premiere of “Taikon”.
– She was constantly in talks and lectures. We were awkward, and fought together against hardened politicians, we almost lived in the Parliament building during those years. Palme tried to stretch out a hand, but he decided not alone. She toiled for twenty years and then stopped her heart when she was 50 and she ended up in a coma for 14 years before she died. It was her dedication that cost her life, says the big sister who turns 90 next summer.
Their work was yet not in vain. Rosa Taikon, now writing on a book manuscript, tells of the bag that she has at home in Ytterhogdal, Härjedalen, brimful with newspaper clippings about her sister’s work. Katarina Taikon was heard and made a difference.
How do you see your sister act today?
– Everything she did was for our benefit. Today the Roma live in Sweden in the house and they have the right to go to school. Though you still can not say that you called Taikon and get a job, many Roma have changed their names, she says and adds:
– And none of those responsible for romregistret in Skåne, which also included children, suffered any consequences. But I am still grateful that I grew up in Sweden there were also human people here already when I was little. And did not my grandfather stung from Hungary before they began to kill Romanies during World War II, so I had not been here at all.
The Swedish gato r and squares she looks today while again difficult disadvantaged Roma without housing or fixed incomes.
– It is very sad, but it does not leave his country to beg outside supermarkets in Sweden if one is not driven into it. There’s journalists in Hungary, writes that the Roma should not be allowed to exist and that we are “like animals”. And Jobbikpartiet burn down Roma camps and pushes against adult men and boys.
Many Swedes are outraged begging and that Roma live in parks and forests, as before. What do you think it is that triggers their anger?
– That must surely be about how great compassion is? Though I still want to believe in it – if you stop believing in the good where you end up when that person?
Pink Taikon mention Emir Selimi (recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Award 2014) as an example of a young and hopeful force of her little sister’s spirit. With the new “Taikon” film, Lawen Mohtadis applauded biography “The day I will be free. A book on Katarina Taikon “from 2012 and the re-release of” Katitzi “-böckerna held at the same time the Swedish Roma’s dark history alive.
– What I hope now is that your and other people’s children learn to understand that all people that does not inflict harm to others has the right to live and go to school. It must begin with the children. In that way, I think that Catherine’s greatest achievement is all the “Katitzi” -böckerna. She wrote a fact that children understand.
When will the Roma to avoid having to change the name to find work in Sweden?
– It has come to the it still takes twenty years for a newborn rum to enter Swedish society. And it is the Swedish Roma. Those who come here from other countries still have a hell bluntly. We have been here since the 1500s, I was born in Tibro, Swedish citizens – but has never received any benefit for it. Democracy has never concerned Roma.
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