Word: tiszal
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...Koka's funeral, as a septet of folk musicians played a dirge, some 400 mourners stood beneath canopies of pine and birch boughs listening glumly as the Rev. Sandor Gaal described the murder as part of a "storm" now enveloping Hungary. "The storm struck at our brother in Tiszalök," Gaal said. "The storm has upset life in this town...
...only Tiszalök. The murders, which began last November, have unsettled all of Hungary. "They just keep on killing Roma people," says a 35-year-old woman at the funeral, who refused to identify herself or her village because she feared being attacked herself...
...Koka's home at the end of Nefelejcs Utca (Forget Me Not Street) on the edge of Tiszalök's Roma quarter bolsters Bencze's contention that the killer or killers plan their attacks and escapes carefully. By positioning themselves on the outskirts of the community, Koka's killers were able to lie in wait unobserved, and slip away without witnesses seeing their vehicle. According to a source in the Roma National Council, Koka's killers were careful not to leave a shell casing behind as evidence...
...investigation drags on, Roma leaders fear that anger within their community could lead to reprisal attacks. "It is important to know that it is hard for us to keep holding our people back," says Mihaly Balogh, local leader of the National Roma Council in Tiszalök. "I tell everyone that we have a police force that is there to protect us ... But if the murders are not solved soon, it will be very difficult to stop people from acting...
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