Banning Nazis achieves nothing

After street fights between Czech police and members of a neo-Nazi organisation seeking to attack a Roma settlement in northern Bohemia, the Czech Interior Ministry is considering banning extreme right-wing organisations. The leftist daily Právo finds bans inadequate, writing that more must be done for the country's Roma population: "The clashes in Litvinov were not just between right-wing radicals and Roma. ... The alarming thing is that part of Litvinov's population supported the radicals. The Roma are cut off from society. Without daily social programmes in their communities and without years of educational work in schools, families, churches, associations and the media, bans on Nazis and their marches will remain ineffective."

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