There are 140,000 Roma living in Italy. Most of them live on squalid shanty sites with poor sanitation and no running water. Now they are being targeted in a government crackdown on crime for which the Roma are widely blamed. Interior department has ordered a census of Roma camps in which all Roma including children will be fingerprinted. The plan has met with strong criticism from human rights and aid groups . They say it is racist and treats Roma people like criminals. One religious charity Sant'Egidio Community said the census went against he EU's anti discrimination rules because it was aimed at a single ethnic group. He says: SOUNDBITE: Sant'egidio's President, Marco Impagliazzo, saying: (Italian) "I don't know if this is racism or not. But the new rules look confused to say the least. They seem wrong because they seem highly discriminatory". Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government has also created "special commissioners" for what it calls the Roma...
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