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Back in Brussels, yesterday night,I set foot in a country, shaken bythe reporting (originally by the English BBC, and reissued by the Flemish-language public TV) about one of the Bulgarian "orphanages",where not only poor orphans, but also children with a mental handicapand children from criminal families are being stowed away, subject to abuses and neglection.
(Derelict apt. buildings in NE Plovdiv)
The Bulgarian children's home in question happens to be located in the region I visited last week. Like a number of similar ones, it is located in a village or small town. Many children are of Rom (Tzigan) origin.
I do not know, if the situation was better before the year 1989, when in Romania (where the same scandal existed) and in Bulgaria the state-controlled system was replaced by rather rude configurations ofcapitalism. The Bulgarian "home" in question is located in the southern part, at the feet of the Rhodopes Mountains. Ethnic, religious and cultural minorities live there together....
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