September 24 2019 - Thousands of protesters clashed with police at the parliament building in Jakarta. They are protesting corruption, repression of activists and the oppression of west papuans, and proposed changes to the criminal code, which include penalties for sex outside marriage, insulting the president’s dignity, a four-year jail term for abortions in the absence of a medical emergency or rape, and a prison term for black magic. [video]/[video]
On this day, 2 August 1944, around 4000 Roma people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp resisted being taken to the gas chambers. The SS swarmed into the Roma camp, but prisoners had armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded themselves indoors, fighting the Nazis with hands and nails. A non-Roma prisoner who survived described that everyone was fighting, and that “women [were] the fiercest in their fight” as they were “younger and stronger” than the other detainees and were “protecting their children”. Tragically they were overcome, and all murdered in the gas chambers in Birkenau.
Pictured: Rudolph Richter, a Roma prisoner at Auschwitz https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1179704358881379/?type=3
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