Magyar Egyház, 1983 (62. évfolyam, 1-5. szám)
1983-03-01 / 2. szám
14. oldal also in the economy management, the party leadership on all levels, and in the government. IV. We demand that the artificial alteration of the ethnic composition of greater Transylvania (historic Transylvania, the Parts (Partium and Banat) should be stopped at once. 1. The forced and massive re-settling of the population of Moldavia and Wallachia into Transylvania should cease. 2. The authorities should give up their effort to try to change the population of Hungarian villages into mixed population. 3. The practice by which newly graduated Hungarian intellectuals (specially engineers and physicians) are forcibly transferred to Moldavia and Wallachia, should be terminated. V. We demand that the development of the ethnic awareness in the Hungarians of Romania and its cultivation be made possible. 1. With regard to our past. a) Hungarian mother tongue pupils should be given a chance to become acquainted with the true historical facts regarding their own ethnic background and Romanian pupils should also be instructed about these facts, at least to a minimum degree. b) The publications dealing with history should objectively discuss the history of Transylvania. The exhibits in the museums should not be used in order to conceal or belittle the role of the Hungarians in the past and their existence today. c) The ideological function of the Daco- Romanian continuity should be discontinued (This theory should remain what in fact it is: a working-hypothesis of the historians). d) Taking an active interest in the history of Transylvania should not be regarded as a manifestation of revisionist tendencies. 2. With regard to our present situation: a) Statistical data about the present situation of the nationalities should be made available to everyone. b) It should be permitted for anyone to engage in sociological research pertaining to the nationalities. c) Independent of the language of instruction, every school should inform its pupils about the situation of the nationalities in the country and about their culture. d) Books on the life of the nationalities in Romania, their national customs, their art etc. should also be published in the Romanian language. e) Rules and regulations concerning the use of derisive names should also be made applicable concerning names used to deride Hungarians (this is to say, names such as ’’bozgor“ and “hazatlan” should be regarded equivalent e. g. with “olah"). VI. We demand that in ali areas of greater Transylvania inhabited by Hungarians the Hungarian lanMAGYAR CGYflAZ guage be treated equal with the Romanian language in official as well as in everyday use. 1. The use of the Hungarian language should truly be possible in public administration and in the offices of the various authorities. Hungarian language petitions addressed to the same should be accepted, as stated in paragraph 22 of the Constitution. The identity cards, the passports, and the official form letters etc. should be bilingual. 2. In the above areas, workers employed in the fields of health care, commerce and public services should be familiar with the Hungarian language. 3. In areas with a Hungarian population, Hungarian language instruction should be obligatory in Romanian schools as well. (During the time of the Horthy-regime it was compulsory fot the Hungarian children living in Northern Transylvania to learn Romanian). 4. The names of towns and streets, shop signs, factories and public institutions, the names of consumer products, museums etc. should all be bilingual in the above areas. VH. We demand that the Hungarians of Romania should have the same career opportunities as the Romanians. An end should be made to the practice according to which the professional career and the engagement for a position are not determined by professional skills but, above all, by the ethnic background and to the practice that companies only employ the number of Hungarians needed to prove equality in the statistics, the percentage of Hungarian workers in the company being determined by the overall percentage of Hungarians in Romania. VIII. We demand that our environment, reflecting our historic and cultural past, be protected. 1. The traditional townscape of the Transylvanian cities should be preserved. 2. Buildings of cultural or historic significance should not be pulled down. 3. All worthy objects should be registered as cultural properties. 4. The environment of Hungarian cultural monuments should not be changed in a way as to show the monument to a disadvantage. 5. A basis for the rescue of decaying cultural monuments should be established. IX. We demand that the natives of Moldavia still using the Hungarian language, the Csángó, be again permitted to declare themselves Hungarians and to participate in Hungarian cultural life —despite the fact that the present statistics are made to show that all of the Csángó are Romanian speaking. 1. They should be permitted to join the body representing the Hungarian interests. 2. They should be permitted to freely speak their mother tongue. 3. Schools offering instruction in their Hungarian mother tongue should be opened again. 4. They should have the right to chose the language or their religion freely. 5. The Csángó should no longer be segregated, their relationship with the other Hungarians should no longer be obstructed and the visitors to the Csángó villages should not be driven out any longer. X. We demand that an independent, unbiased, international commission be formed (including Hungarians and Romanians) to examine our situation and make decisions regarding all debated issues related to our destiny. *** The above information, which has been compiled in the interest of two million Hungarians, only provides a partial crosssection of the country's problems: those touching upon the Hungarians (though they are only outlined and imcomplete). We are quite aware that the solution of the above problems can not be achieved without paying attention to general problems. It is our primary task however, to name these problems, for no one will do this for us. The open discussion of common matters would not be our task alone and maybe not even primarily our task but first and foremost that of the Romanian population. Yet we do not consider our step premature. This wall of silence within must at last be removed: the enormous, motionless and seemingly immovable block made up of arbitrary rule and the absence of rights, which haunts every Romanian citizen like a constant feverish nightmare (exept those who profit from it) must be broken down for it is ultimately responsible for the catastrophic situtation, in all respects, our country is in today. In this regard, it is our conviction that our proposed programme, which to “some” might appear to be directed against the Romanians, in reality supports the interests of the Romanian nationals as well, as lawfulness would perforce also extend their rights. The Trianon (1920) and the Paris (1947) peace treaties totally disregarded the rights for national self-determination of Hungarians. To illustrate the selectiveness in observing this precious right the Trianon treaty united 99% of all Rumanians in new, enlarged Rumania, 95% of all Serbs and 98% of all Croats in new Yugoslavia, 92% of all Slovaks and 100% of all Czechs in new Czechoslovakia. But only 68% of all Hungarians were allowed to live in new dismembered Hungary; 32 out of 100 Hungarians were detached from the bulk of the nation and placed under foreign rule in these neighboring countries, as a result of the newly drawn boundaries. The Paris treaty has repeated the same errors. Carpathian observer
