Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2016 (28. évfolyam, 14-50. szám)
2016-05-13 / 20. szám
DIRECT * NO BROKER FEE 818 981-8424 Sokol Insurance Agency * Lie # 772323 Egy esküvő az Orfeumban Szilvia és Edvin. Az asszony összetör Az Orfeumban Pánczél Iván, Szoboszlai Sándor, Schaffer Anikó Palotás - Kárpátok Néptáncegyüttes Autonomy in the Carpathian Basin for the ethnic Hungarians Why do Hungarian minorities need autonomy in the neighbouring countries? Through the unfair peace treaty of Trianon in 1920 the thousand years old Hungarian State lost 2/3 of her territory and 1/3 of the Hungarian population - 3.4 million - ethnic Hungarian inhabitants to the newly created neighbouring countries. Half of this Hungarian population lives in a belt directly surrounding the borders of the present Hungarian state. This Hungarian population under foreign rule in the last 96 years shrunk to 2.5 million. At the same time, the neighbouring nations in the newly created countries doubled their population. The symmetry of the Hungarians to the majority population on the ceded territory changed to their disadvantage: in Slovakia: from 30 % - to 10 % in Carpathian Ukraine: from 31 % - to 12 % in Transylvania (Romania): from 32 % - to 20 % in Vojvodina (Serbia): from 28 % - to 14 % The shrinking of the Hungarian population on the ceded territories between 1920 and 1990 can be explained by the pressure to migrate to Hungary, forced resettling, deportation, genocide, relocation and assimilation. With the Euro-Atlantic integration, we thought there will be a positive development concerning the Hungarian issue after the change from one party dictatorship to democracy after 1990. Unfortunately our hopes were wrong. Every decade the Hungarian population is shrinking with several hundred thousand on the ceded territories. The collective rights are naturally existing for the autochthone nations in the western part of the European Union. However, out of Hungary’s 7 neighbour countries 5 of them (Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia and Austria) are not giving collective rights on their territory to the autochthone Hungarians which they should rightfully deserve. Only 2 neighbours, Croatia and Slovenia, are giving collective rights to the autochthone Hungarian population on their territory. Serbia, which is now aiming tó become a member of the European Union is showing small signs of willingness to give possibly cultural autonomy. What do Hungarian national communities need for survival? First of all they need the right to use Hungarian language without restraint in every area of life from birth to death, the right to save and maintain national culture without external conditions, equal citizenship in their new states, financial and economic independence. In other words real subsidiarity is needed. None of Hungary’s neighbour states recognise the autochthone Hungarian communities as a stateforming-nation factor. Therefore they are not equal citizens of the neighbouring countries. Hence further existence and survival of them in homeland is only possible with a full and whole autonomy. This whole autonomy means personal, cultural and territorial autonomy or combination of those three. Only with these conditions can the self-determination of ethnic Hungarian population be guaranteed, living either in a block around the border or scattered. In several countries of Europe the issue of autochthone national minorities is solved by securing autonomy based upon personal principles, cultural or territorial autonomies. It must go without saying that in the successor states the autochthone Hungarian communities must receive as a matter of law the right to self-determination. This is based upon the right given by the place of birth and their ancestors, who lived there, built villages, cities, created rich cultural heritage and fought to protect that land from the enemy for many centuries. This right is justified by the many European guidelines and recommendations by the Council of Europe and the long practice of those Western European countries which were not under Soviet rules. Therefore, autonomy is needed for the Hungarian Nation’s ceded parts. With the leadership of László Tőkés the Council of the Hungarian Autonomy in the Carpathian Basin was founded in 2005, in which all important Hungarian political organisations from the neighbouring countries are participating. In 2011, on a meeting in Brussels, the Council of the Hungarian Autonomy accepted a declaration which is still valid today. This declaration lays down that:- the only guarantee of the survival and development of the Hungarian national communities outside of Hungary is by securing them full and whole autonomy,- all legal instrument will be used to achieve this rightful goal of the Hungarians,- to save European stability the solution of the Hungarian issue is inevitable. There is an unsolved Hungarian case in Europe. It is the vital interest of all of us to solve this issue in a way which is serving all participants to secure social peace, political stability and economic prosperity. Brussels, 19 April 2016. György Csáti, Director of the Minority Right Protection Institute DUNA Travel 8530 Holloway Dr. »102 W. Hollywood, CA 90069 Spa, Hotel foglalások Kocsi bérlés Kedvezményes repülőjegy árak HAJÓUTAK BÁRHOVÁ A VILÁGON Hívják ZSUZSÁT TEL: (310) 652-5294 FAX: (310) 693-5320 1-888-532-0168 dunatravel@earthlink.net Support our Advertisers! FARMERS AUTO * HOME * LIFE Gets You Back Where You Belong 21st Century insurance customers CALL & SAVE UP TO 18 % ON YOUR HOMEOWNERS Május 13, 2016 SUBSCRIBE TO THE HÍRLAP - amhir.com AMERICAN Hungarian Journal Jaj cica! AMERIKAI Magyar Hírlap 1 6 1
