Violence spread to the homes of the Roma community in southern Ukraine after a mob destroyed Their village over the weekend. The mob shattered windows, tore down fences, and set fire to houses. The violence erupted after the body of a nine-year-old girl was found, Suspected to have been raped by a 21-year-old Roma man. Although later noted, by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, the man was not Roma, the tensions between non-Roma and Roma were already high and escalating. Demanding the Roma be expelled from the village, they soon apparently left voluntarily and left many of Their personal belongings behind.

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