The Eighth Tribe, 1979 (6. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1979-10-01 / 10. szám
administration. Cities and townships with Hungarian majority must also have their own Hungarian administration, including police force. 3. The re-establishment of all Hungarian educational institutions, including the Hungarian universities of Kolozsvár and Marosvásárhely. 4. The return of all confiscated archives, libraries and museums. 5. The re-establishment of Hungarian cultural organizations, literary societies, literary and professional publications, publishing houses. 6. The re-establishment of the freedom of the churches and church-related organizations. 7. The return of old Hungarian cemeteries under the care and authority of the Hungarian churches and cultural organizations. 8. All signs and markers in Hungarian-populated cities, towns and villages must be bi-lingual. 9. Those Hungarians who were deported from their native environment or have moved from their homes under duress, shall be allowed to return home and be employed there. Rumanians, who were moved into Hungarian towns and villages with the purpose of diluting the Hungarian character of the area or filling the better paying jobs at the expense of the native Hungarian population must be returned into their own provinces. 10. Equal opportunity in every field of human existence, including the termination of job-discrimination. 11. The termination of all harassments and intimidations in relation to nationality. This includes census, postal service, transportation and welfare as well as the treatment of visitors from foreign countries, and the treatment of those persons who receive these visitors. 12. Aid sent to individuals, churches or churchrelated organizations by individuals, churches or church-related organizations in foreign countries must be allowed to reach its destination, and serve the purpose it was donated for. * * * THESE DEMANDS REPRESENT NOTHING MORE THAN NORMAL EXPECTANCE DUE A NATIVE POPULATION OF A COUNTRY, WHICH, DURING THE COURSE OF HISTORY, FINDS ITSELF TAKEN OVER BY ANOTHER NATION, AND PLUNGED INTO THE UNFORTUNATE STATUS OF A MINORITY. THE NUMBER OF HUNGARIANS IN TRANSYLVANIA Though Rumanian statistics constantly under report the number of Hungarians in Transylvania, G. Satmarescu, Rumanian author living in the West, estimated in 1975 their number to be about 2.5 million. The Handbuch Europäischer Volksgruppen, published in 1974 by the European Union movement, estimated the number of Hungarians in Transylvania to be 2.4 million. The Brazilian Transylvanian organization, Movimento pro Transylvania, using demographic constants of the overall population increase in Rumania and subtracting changes extraneous to the natural increase arrived at an estimate of 2.8 million. Adding to this figure the 200,000 “csángó” Hungarians of Moldova, the number of Hungarians in Rumania reaches the 3 million, thus representing the largest national minority in Europe, The continuous abridgment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms assumes more than local importance. (From: Transylvania, the Hungarian Minority in Rumania, by Julia Nánay, published by the Danubian Press, Astor, Fla. 32002.) WHAT HAPPENED TO BORIKA BODÓ? T1VF reports from Transylvania — On June 28, 1979, three young girls in Szék, Transylvania, were singing old Hungarian folk songs while working in the field. They were admonished twice by the supervisor to sing only Rumanian songs because they live in the land of the Rumanian people. However, the three girls continued singing Hungarian songs. Late afternoon a police vehicle arrived at the scene, picked up the three girls, and took them to the police station in Kolozs (Cojocna). Arriving there, they were stripped, each given ten lashes with a whip by chief Morariu, and raped. Next morning the parents of the girls were at the police station. Two of the girls were released. But the parents of Borika Bodó, 16, were told that their daughter had to be taken to Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) in order to stand trial for tearing down the Rumanian flag and spitting on it. The Bodó family went to Kolozsvár but the authorities there did not seem to know anything about their daughter. Borika Bodó disappeared. She was last seen by the two other girls being dragged out from the cell by chief Morariu. Where is Borika Bodó? THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY YU
