'Gypsy slaves'

Thursday 04 February 1993 00:02 GMT
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BUDAPEST (AFP) - Fifty-one Hungarian farmers have been fined for keeping workers, mainly Romanian gypsies, in virtual slavery near the southern town of Mako. A total of 205 illegal workers from Romania toiled for a pittance in the villages of Magyarcsanad, Apatfalva and Kiszombor, doing 'work no Hungarian would be ready to do', the Magyar Nemzet newspaper said.

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