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TO GO WITH STORY BY TATIANA BEDNARIKOVA
Recent picture showing a general view of non-roma (Top) part of a village and Roma shacks (Bottom) taken in eastern Slovak village of Ostrovany, on November 11, 2009. A white concrete panel wall built last month in Ostrovany, a village of 1,200 Roma in eastern Slovakia, has locals as well as Roma and human-rights organisations fuming. There are more than 600 Roma settlements in Slovakia where people live without electricity, sewage or running water. Slovakia, a nation of 5.4-million, is officially home to 89,000 Roma, the actual number might be approximately 350,000 Roma. AFP PHOTO/ JOE KLAMAR