We saw the wall on television for the first time", says Roma Josef Lacko (37). It is going to be built to separate some blocks of houses where Roma live from those detached houses where Czechians live. Since the town government of Usti nad Labem (Aussig an der Elbe) announced this plan to exclude the Roma, Josef Lacko and his friends have become famous. The Roma are not very popular in Czechia. Not only the right-wing extremists make propaganda for the exclusion of the Roma, but also members of the civil ODS plead for it. According to a public opinion poll, one out of four Czechs is intolerant towards different races, 16 % do not tolerate different nationalities. Two thirds said that they have mental reservations towards Roma. This attitude was extremely high in North Bohemia, that has also a very high unemployment. 90% of the Czechians would like to get the Roma out of their country. According to the Roma National Congress , there have been more than 2000 racist encroachments during 1990 - 1998. The Centre for the defence of Roma rights and the Czechian media often report on acts of violence. In September 1993 four Roma were chased into a river by 40 skinheads. When they tried to reach the bank, they were beaten and driven back. At last one 17 years-old Roma drowned. In June 1994 a Roma in West Czechia was arrested and taken to a hospital at night. When his family aksed about him by telephone, they were told that he had fallen over. The man died of a gun-shot wound in his head. A report of the government said that the police was innocent. In February 1998 ( Romnews Reported http://www.romnews.com/a/17-98.html )a 26 years old female Roma of the place Vrchlabi, mother of four children, was maltreated by skinheads and thrown into the Elbe, where she drowned. 300 Roma and Czechs as well as Dagmar Havlova, the wife of president Havel, attended her funeral. The skinheads bear names as „Blood and Honour", or „White Arian Resistance", or „National Assembly of Fascists". Their number is estimated at 5.000. Among the police officers there are symphatizers or even members of the skinheads, says a report of a government commission, that deals with the Roma of the country. According to another report, 62,5 % of the police officers believe that the Roma themselves provocate racist offences by their bad reputation. The 18 years old skinhead, who killed the black student from Sudan, was sentenced to more than 14 years imprisonment. The Czech governmeng has announced to issue a areport on the situation of the human rights in Czechia in March 1999: a plan of 18 items, reaching from an education programme to the search for racist publications. Even in Usti nad Labem a learning process has begun: When it turned out that the complaints of the Czech neighbours about the noise pollution and vast amounts of rubbish were justified, Roma - representatives came from other places to offer assistance for self-help to the Roma.