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"Many of the 10-12 million Roma living in Europe face "the daily threat of forced eviction, police harassment and violent attacks", the rights group said. "The conditions in which many Roma are forced to live are a damning indictment of years of official neglect and discrimination," the report said. "Far from acknowledging that this situation is a result of their failure to ensure the human rights of the Roma, some European leaders are choosing to blame Roma themselves for 'failing to integrate'." "