The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1981-01-01 / 1. szám

alone thirty thousand Rumanians were brought into the city.”

“As we traveled across Transylvania there was not a single place where we could use the Hungarian language without being exposed to rude scolding and cursing. School-children if caught speaking Hungarian among themselves on the playground receive twenty lashes from the teachers. Those standing in line for potatoes, bread or anything else, if heard by the food-distributors whispering among themselves in Hungarian are chased away without a bite of food. The discrimination against Hungarians reached such proportions that Hitler’s Germany was nothing compared to it...”

“Even the cemeteries are changed. When we tried to take flowers to a grave of someone beloved, we could not find the gravestones. • All the old Hungarian gravestones were taken out. The graves of our mother and father, and those of our grandparents have disappeared completely. NOT EVEN THE DEAD SEEM TO HAVE THE RIGHT TODAY IN TRANSYLVANIA TO REST IN A GRAVE WITH A HUNGARIAN NAME ON THE GRAVESTONE.”

“We understand now Ceausescu’s threat that in ten years there will be no Hungarian problem in Transylvania. In our modern world, when 500 trucks can appear unexpectedly one morning on a city street and load up one thousand families within one hour, not ten but five years will suffice to erase the entire thousand-year-old Hungarian culture from the face of this beautiful land, together with three million human beings, and nobody will even ask what happened to them.. !”

“WE ARE LIVING INDEED IN A TERRIBLE WORLD AND A TERRIBLE AGE, IN WHICH THERE ARE PLENTY OF INSTITUTIONS TO CARE FOR “ENDANGERED SPECIES” IF THESE SPECIES ARE BIRDS OR ANIMALS, BUT FOR ENDANGERED HUMANS NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE...”

THE FOLLOWING MEMORANDUM WAS SENT BY THE HUNGARIANS IN TRANSYLVANIA TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE MADRID CONFERENCE IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 1980. THE TRANSYLVANIAN WORLD FEDERATION FULLY SUPPORTS THE DEMANDS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN HUNGARIANS FOR SELF-DETERMINATION, SELFADMINISTRATION AND SEPARATION FROM THE RUMANIAN STATE. MAY GOD HELP THEM IN THEIR STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM AND EQUALITY UNDER THE SUN!

THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY

MEMORANDUM

TO THE SIGNATORY STATES OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY ACCORDS AND TO ALL THE MEMBER-STATES OF THE UNITED NATIONS 1

In behalf of all Hungarians who are living today as a national minority in Rumania we hereby

DECLARE

to all nations and their governments, but first of all to all the peoples of the socialist countries and their governments, that we have formed and established an organization for all Hungarians living within the borders of the Socialist Republic of Rumania called:

THE SOCIALIST FEDERATION OF HUNGARIANS IN RUMANIA

This step was necessary because:

1. The Rumanian government and the National Councils directed by it do not represent the interest of the Hungarian workers, and serve only the anti-socialist purposes of forced Rumanization.

2. The Socialist Republic of Rumania excludes all nationality groups, among them three million Hungarians from all rights of equality set forth in the Rumanian Constitution as well as in the constitutions of all socialist countries.

5. Rumanian State authorities increasingly discriminate against the non-Rumanian nationalities, depriving them of their leaders and their socialist-minded intellectuals, and terrorizing them on every field of their existence.

4. Making use of the discontent caused by oppression, the Rumanian state infiltrates the ranks of the minorities with police agents who are inciting minority workers against the Soviet Union and socialist statehood in order to make the same minority groups responsible for all the Rumanian nationalistic movements and for all the disturbances caused by labor dispute. Those who speak up for the rights of minority workers are punished as counter-revolutionaries.

5. Under the pretext of industrialization the Government settles Rumanians midst the solidly Hungarian or German territories. According to demographic data more than one and a half million Rumanians were settled this way since 1945 into towns and villages inhabited for centuries by Hungarians or Germans only.

6. Hungarians living in those areas are forcibly removed into districts with Rumanian majority.

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