1987. március (14-32. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
®ffli 24/D Little Rut&cfl Street, LONDON, W-C.i Ttl.Ol-W H 24 • G. RrQSiti 32/1987 /e/ 29th March, 1987 Attacks against Hungárián Institutions in Czechoslovakia The "Committee fór the Defence of the Rights of the Hungárián Minority in Czechoslovakia" sent a letter /dated I6th March, 1987/ to the Attorney General of the Slovak Socialist-Republic in Bratislava, in which it complains about attacks on Hungárián institutions in Bratislava during the night of 8-9th March 1987. "So far unidentified perpetrators", says the letter, "set fire to the seat and rehearsing hall of the Hungárián Dance and Folk-song Ensemble Mlade Srdcia /Young Hearts/. During the same night the building of the Central Committee of Csemadok and the entrance to the offices of the daily TJj Szó were damaged. The fact that buildings of Hungárián institutions in different places in Bratislava were damaged during one night shows unambigously that these were organized actions against the Hungárián minority." The letter then lists other complaints, such as that "the statue of Sándor Petőfi is being regularly damaged, that Hungárián children are verbally castigated fór speaking Hungárián when travelling in public transport, that anti-Hungarian slogans are peinted on buildings, that the Hungárián minority is being oppressed in both the cultural and the economic spheres", etc. The letter then poses the question: "Where is all this going to lead to, is it going to get worse?" Finally the latter adds: "Unless the perpetrators of all these acts are broúght to justice and unless the public is fully informed of the reál background to all these erimes, the mistrust and fears of the Hungárián minority are going to get worse." The correctness of the letter was verified by the signature of Miklós Duray. JU
