The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-01-01 / 1. szám
mania used ite Washington embassy and its friendly connections with leading Americans to serve as a center for Russian espionage against the United States — the very goose that was laying for Ceausescu the golden eggs of financial aid. We are indeed grateful to Jack Anderson for revealing what we have tried for years to convey: Rumania is much mare dangerous as a friend than as an enemy! ☆ ☆ WHAT HAPPENED TO BORIKA BODÓ? Under the above title the Transylvanian Quarterly published a report in October, 1979, based on information received directly from Transylvania. According to this information on June 28, 1979, three young girls in the village of Szék (Secu) were singing old Hungarian folk songs while working in thefield. In spite of being admonished twice by their supervisor not to sing Hungarian songs because they are in the land of the Rumanian people, the three girls continued singing in Hungarian. Soon a police vehicle arrived at the scene, picked up the girls, and took them to the police station in neighboring Kolozs (Cojocna), where they were stripped, beaten and raped. Next morning two of the tortured girls were released, but the parents of the third girl, Borika Bodó, 16, were told by police chief Morariu that their daughter had to be transferred to Kolozsvár (Cluj- Napoca) in order to stand trial. However, when the parents inquired at the Kolozsvár authorities, nobody seemed to know anything of the girl. She simply disappeared. The parents were told to keep their mouth shut or else, and foreign organizations inquiring about the case were advised that no person by that name has ever existed in Rumania. More than a year has passed. Then in September 1980 a young Hungarian refugee, who escaped from Rumania, arrived in Italy. As a political dissident he spent three years in the Kolozsvár dungeon, and was transferred from there in the spring of 1980 to a “mental clinic” where he was subjected to different experiments on drugs. He recalled seeing there a girl by the name of Bori, who, together with other young girls, was used for the sexual pleasure of the staff. Sometime in May this girl had committed suicide by an overdose of drugs and was buried in the cemetery behind the institution. Since Bori and Borika are the same name, it can he assumed that it was the missing Borika Bodó who put an end to her life already destroyed by her captors. So the question: what happened to Borika Bodó? seems to be answered. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS: Hungarian “political prisoners” in Rumania are kept in prisons which are way below the minimal requirements set forth by the United Nations. These are mostly clergymen, church-elders, educators and factory workers who dared to protest against discrimination. They are forced to work under abominable conditions twelve hours a day, including Sunday. Those who collapse are transferred into so-called “mental clinics”, and used for experimental purposes. Amnesty International was also informed that members of the boxing team in the DINAMO SPORTCLUB, an organization of the Security Police, are commissioned with the beating of these political prisoners as part of their training program. The Rumanian Boxing Team, representing Rumania in the Olympics, is composed mainly of members of this organization. ROMANIA (EWNS). President Nicolae Ceausescu announced during a special telecast in Romania, that all premises built without government approval will either be confiscated or demolished. On March 28, the Baptist Church in Bujac, Romania was confiscated and two other churches in the town of Oradea are now awaiting the same fate. Due to the present oil crisis which weighs heavily on the Romanian economy, President Ceausescu also introduced a new rule concerning travel on Sunday by private transportation. In the future, travel by car will be permitted only on alternate Sundays depending upon the odd and even registration of the cars. This hits very hard at pastors who have to travel great distances to minister to their congregation. Several pastors have requested the government to provide a special exemption for them, saying they would be willing to surrender two other days of nontravel in exchange for being allowed to travel on Sundays. The Romanian government answered with a loud “No.” The Transylvania Quarterly is a supplement to the Eighth Tribe bi-lingual monthly magazine. Subscription is $10.00 per year — $12.00 outside U.S.A. payable in U.S. funds. Eighth Tribe, P.O. Box 637, Ligonier, Pa. 15658. VI THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY
