Rome Film Festival, held in Prague to address racial gap

 An annual international festival was held through the weekend in Prague in a bid to enhance relations in between native Czechs and the country's Roma (Gypsy) minority.

The International Roma Festival Khamoro, which was organized by two Czech nongovernmental organizations with government assistance, featured concerts, an education campaign, two international conferences on Roma education and art, as well as an exhibition of Roma lifestyle.

Foreign participants invited to the occasion included Roma folk art groups from seven other European nations and India, along with specialists from 19 nations worldwide.

Roma communities have lengthy been complaining that the minority group was discriminated against in education, politics as well as other elements of public life in the nation, along with the government has pledged to address their grievance.

The Khamoro festival was held annually within the Czech capital given that May possibly 1999, featuring Roma culture and traditions.

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