Rouda, Vanko

Rouda, Vanko
   Algeria. Contemporary civil rights activist. He worked for Romany rights in postwar Europe together with his brother Leulea. In the early 1950s, while living in North Africa, he read a newspaper report of a speech by Vaida Voevod III. He then came to Paris and worked with the latter in the Communauté Mondiale Gitane. Later, Rouda was to set up the Comité International Tzigane.

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