Székely Nép, 1992 (24. évfolyam, 36. szám)
1992-10-01 / 36. szám
10. oldal SZÉKELY NÉP COMMITTEE OF TRANSYLVANIA, INC.--------------------------------------------------------Founded 1956 ----------------------------------------------------— PRESIDENT: P O. BOX 10069. ROCHESTER. NEW YORK 14610 • TEL: (716) 288-2014, FAX: (714) 244-1106 CENTRAL OFFICE 2808 EAST I24TH STREET. CLEVELAND. OHIO 44120 • TEL: (216) 991-7873. (216) 991-1135 The Honorable August 30, m2 United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Sir: My 25 years experience with Rumanian affairs taught me not to believe pledges made by the Rumanian government for more freedom and democracy in general, and with regard to human rights and national minority rights in particular. Right now, for example, the sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro are contravent by Rumania by transporting goods, including crude oil and gasolin to these countries. This attitude of the Rumanians helps to lengthen the bloody war and destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as such it is done in direct violation of the United Nations’ resolution about the problem of former Yugoslavia. Investigation of the situation and warning Rumania of bad consequences would be needed. In order to prove its good intentions Rumania now (Aug. 26) offered its territory of monitoring implementation of the sanctions. Another discrepancy between pledges and facts is in the minority school question. The new constitution spells out that “insofar there are differences concerning human rights pacts to which Rumania is a signatory, and between domestic laws, the international regulations have the priority”. (Article II, 1/20) Many international agreements protect the right of the national minorities to establish and run their own schools conducted in the respective mother languages. The last such resolution was adopted at the Copenhagen Human Dimension conference in 1991. It states that “persons belonging to a national minority have the right to establish and maintain their own educational, cultural and religious institutions." (Document IV. Paragraph 32.4) Yet the draft of the Rumanian educational law states that in Rumania there can only be Rumanian language schools. The denial of Hungarian language schools means the death of all Hungarian education if it will be a law when the new Rumanian parlament after the Sept. 27 election votes on it. The educational bill states that “the teaching goes on in Rumanian language on all levels. ” But further it says that “the teaching also could be on one of the world-wide languages" But not on the language of the Hungarians who populate Transylvania in 25-30%, and 50 to 100% in some cities and the Szekely Land. The alleged priority of international agreements seems to serve only propaganda purposes to demonstrate Rumania’s adherence to international standards of human rights and national minority rights in order to mislead Western Europe and the United States. Misleading the West was successful under the Ceausescu régim. Let’s not let ourselves misled by the present Rumanian policies. Without their own Hungarian school the mothertongue will not develop in young people to the degree of perfection, and on the long run, the majority language will take the place of the mother tongue. This policy certainly aims at that goal. While denial of reestablishing the Hungarian university will deprive the Transylvanian Hungarian community from its intelligentsia which is the leading force in preserving national identity. The Rumanian educational policy to be decided by the new parliament is the counterpart of the “ethnic cleansing” which cannot be condemned enough by the civilized world. The prohibition of the Hungarian school system brings back in memory the 1918 Gyulafehérvár (Alba-Iulia) Rumanian grand assembly where the nationalist Rumanian political leaders passed a resolution in which they declared the unification of all Rumanians in a single state, i.e. the separation of Transylvania from Hungary which was part of that country since the 9th century A.D. In the Resolution they promised “complete national liberty for all the peoples that inhabit Transylvania”, and freedom for national minority education. But all these remained an empty phrase. While we wholeheartedly agree with the content of your letter of July 24 to Secretary of State, James Baker, with our letter we want to alarm you for what the September 27 elections may mean to the Hungarian community of Transylvania, Rumania. The new educational bill for mother tongue education would be worse than what the Ceausescu regime did to the Hungarian education. We urge you to oppose granting MFN status to Rumania until human and national minority rights will not be endangered by the prohibition of Hungarian schools, and Rumania actually joins the UN resolution against Serbia and Montenegro. We deeply appreciate your understanding and co-operation in this matter. Sincerely your, Louis L. Lote KOLOZSVÁRON magyar üzleti útmutatót adtak ki. Főbb célja: az üzleti növekedés támogatása, a kisvállalkozások ösztönzése, oktatás és képzés, a külföldi tőke behívása. Érdeklődők forduljanak erre a címre: Farkas Mária, Str. Jezer, No. 1, Apt. 3, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Tel.: 96/162592. Erdélyből írják: ¥ , „Kémény módszerek kellenek „Sajnálatos, hogy Erdélyért való aggódásunk indokoltabb, mint valaha. A megmaradás és újjászületés esélyeit a román vezetés csökönyös szívóssággal szorítja vissza, mialatt a világ figyelmét zajosabb események kötik le újra meg újra. Szóval, egy pillanatig sem szabad feladni a küzdelmet. A hallgatás bűn, az volt eddig is, de most százszorosán az... Annál is inkább, mert az erdélyi magyarság vezetői (főleg az RMDSZ irányítói) a kezdeti eltökéltség után igencsak elbizonytalanodtak. Kétségtelen: a rájuk nehezedő nyomás iszonyatos! Állítom, hogy Erdély sorsa még ma is az európai és tengerentúli nagyhatalmak kezében van és csak szigorú, kemény módszerekkel lehet igazságos megoldást találni. Az bizonyos, hogy a román állam keretein belül a magyarság soha nem lehet biztonságban, soha nem érezheti magát szabadnak! Szomorú dolgot mondok, de sajnos, igazat. Kétségek között, már-már rögeszmésen keresem a kiutat s egyre gyakrabban gondolok egy, a magyar nemzetiség lélekszámúnak arányában való területi rendezésre. Vagy egy nemzetközi ellenőrzés alatt lezajló népszavazásra...” Kibédi Sándor (Kolozsvár) Kérjük a címváltozásokat bejelenteni!
