AFP 2012-05-28 23:09:03
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY TATIANA BEDNARIKOVA
Ludovit Gunar shows on May 14,2012 Roma houses in the village of Krasnohorske Podhradie near the Krasna Horka castle in eastern Slovakia. A blaze that engulfed the castle has ignited ethnic tensions, with a far right party out to evict Roma blamed for sparking the fire from a nearby shanty town. Marian Kotleba, leader of the small Our Slovakia ultra-nationalist party, has acquired land on which the Roma live in the shadow of the once picturesque Krasna Horka castle earlier this month. The 14th century landmark went up in flames just weeks earlier, after two Roma boys smoking cigarettes accidentally started a blaze. About half of Krasnohorske Podhradie's 2,600 residents are Roma. Some have integrated, but about 900 live in the nearby illegal shanty town. AFP PHOTO /SAMUEL KUBANI
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