Minority
Video: Russians in Estonia – The Story of a Moving War Memorial
In 1947, the Soviet authorities put up a monument in the shape of a bronze soldier. Many Estonians see this statue as a symbol of their country’s occupation by the Soviet Union in the period of 1940/41 and 1944-1991. When the tension increased in September 2006, the police put barricades around the ...
- Date | 08.06.07
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Video: The Gypsy Princess Luminita Mihai Cioaba – Roma Life in Romania
The Roma writer Luminita Mihai Cioaba was born in 1957 and has lived in Sibiu, in Romania, since 1963. It was then her father, Ion Cioaba, who was Bulibassa and later became the first Roma king, moved to Sibiu in order to settle down. minet took a look at some traditional Roma villages and encounter...
- Date | 04.05.07
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Video: The U’wa Tribe in Northeast Colombia on the border to Venezuela
The U’wa tribe in Colombia has been fighting for years to be noticed by the international community. The small community, which counts around 5000 people, appears powerless and insignificant when faced with the greedy demands of large oil companies. The images in this minet report have been filmed b...
- Date | 13.10.06
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