The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-04-01 / 4. szám
UPDATE THE TRADE ACT In Accordance with the Provisions of the Helsinki Agreement! Immigration as the only solution for the protection of oppressed national minorities is not enough, since five million people, one-fourth of the total population of today’s Rumania, can not be emmigrated out of their native land where they had their culture well established centuries before the Rumanians moved in and took over. There must be other means, and there are other means by which a totalitarian government based on a minority party’s rule can be forced to respect and abide by international agreements and by the very charter properly defined and guaranteed. Article 27 of the 1966 United Nations Covenant of Civil and Political Rights states: “IN THOSE STATES IN WHICH ETHNIC. RELIGIOUS OR LINGUISTIC MINORITIES EXIST PERSONS BELONGING TO SUCH MINORITIES SHALL NOT BE DENIED THE RIGHT TO ENJOY THEIR OWN CULTURE, TO PROFESS AND PRACTICE THEIR OWN RELIGION, OR TO USE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE.” Rumania ratified the above covenant but refuses to apply it to Hungarian, German, Jewish, Bulgarian, Serbian and Gypsy native minorities, which together make out almost one-fourth of the country’s total population. The United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide in 1948 accepted the following definition as one of the ways by which the crime of CULTURAL GENOCIDE may be committed: “SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL OR RELIGIOUS MONUMENTS OR THEIR DIVERSION TO ALIEN USES, DESTRUCTION OR DISPERSION OF HISTORICAL, ARTISTIC OR RELIGIOUS VALUES AND OBJECTS . . ” (U.N. Doc. E/447) According to the above definition Rumania is guilty of Cultural Genocide by confiscating and destroying Hungarian museums, libraries and archives, Hungarian monuments and churches as well as old Hungarian cemeteries. But most of all by forcing the Hungarian youth of Transylvania to learn and profess to a falsified history which is abasing and derogatory to their Hungarian consciousness, and places them not only into an inferior status but declares them “alien vagrants” in their own native land. CAN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ENDORSE CULTURAL GENOCIDE? CAN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ENDORSE TERROR, DISCRIMINATION, DEPORTATION, TORTURE AND MURDER COMMITTED DAILY AGAINST DEFENSLESS MINORITIES BY THE CEAUSESCU GOVERNMENT IN RUMANIA? IF NOT, MAKE IT KNOWN TO THE OPPRESSOR AS WELL AS THE OPPRESSED! ☆ ☆ WHAT HAPPENED TO VOITEC AND PIRVULESCU? The Christian Science Monitor reported on March 18, 1981, page two: “Rumanians are puzzling over the dissappearance of Stefan Voitec, senior vicepresident of the State Council and occasional standin for President Nicolae Ceausescu. Voitec has not turned up in the Rumanian press since last June 18. In communist-bloc practice that rarely indicates anything other than political disgrace. “Various reports suggest Voitec was hospitalized or confined to psychiatric clinic. “Another communist veteran, Constantin Pirvulescu, a founding member of the party, hasn’t been heard from since late November 1979, when he accused Ceausescu of exercising undemocratic,, personal rule and challenged his reelection.” We can add to the report of the Monitor that according to our sources Stefan Voitec tried to intervene with Ceausescu several times between March and June 1980 on behalf of the Hungarian minority. Apparently the wrath of the dictator came down upon him the same way as it came down upon Pirvulescu for criticizing the “personal cult” and “nepotism” rampant today in Ceausescu’s Rumania. LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT TRANSYLVANIA! Read the books released by the Danubian Research Center Transylvania and the Hungarian-Rumanian Problem, a symposium, 330 pp. maps, statistics, bibliography, cloth ..........................................................$18.00 Haraszti, Andrew: The Ethnic History of Transylvania ..........................................................$10.00 Haraszti: Origin of the Rumanians..............................$ 5.00 Nánay, Julia: Transylvania, the Hungarian Minority in Rumania...............................................$ 5.00 Zathureczky: Transylvania, Citadel of the Vest ........$ 4.00 THE DANUBIAN PRESS Rt. 1, Box 59 Astor, Florida 32002 n THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY
