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

1981-01-01 / 1. szám

7. Thus the Rumanian government uses force to Rumanize the ethnic composition of cities and administrative districts with a strong Hungarian or German majority.

Based on the above facts we conclude that:

8. Though the Socialist Republic of Rumania is a multi-national state it refuses to grant equality to the Hungarian, German, Jewish, Bulgarian, Russian, Turk, Serbian and Tartar nationalities living within its borders. Though socialist in name, the government of the Rumanian Republic follows the same practices in dealing with minorities as the pre-World War II fascist governments did.

9. The experiences of six decades convinced the coexisting nationalities that their national existence and human rights are neither protected nor ensured within the framework of the Rumanian State. In order that the nationalities co-existing today in Rumania may safeguard their ethnic heritage and be enabled to live and work peacefully side by side, we hereby implore the member states of the United Nations, the signatory states of the European Security Accords and most of all the countries of the Socialist Camp:

TO ESTABLISH THE INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF TRANSYLVANIA under the protective mandate of the United Nations, including the Banat, Marmaros, and Transylvania proper, within the framework of the Socialist Block.

OR:

Divide up the above mentioned territories between the Hungarian People’s Republic and the Socialist Republic of Rumania with a carefully planned and properly implemented population exchange.

10. Rumanians settled on the above territories since 1945 be returned into their native land.

11. Within the Socialist Republic of Transylvania the Rumanian, Hungarian and German languages shall be compulsory in schools as well as in public offices.

12. In the interest of safeguarding the survival of the Socialist Republic of Transylvania the establishment of a “customs union” seems necessary between the Socialist Republic of Transylvania and the Hungarian People’s Republic as well as the Socialist Republic of Rumania, the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of

Germany and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.

13. The SIGNATORY STATES of the EUROPEAN SECURITY ACCORDS shall guarantee the frontiers of the Socialist Republic of Transylvania.

14. We do believe that the above proposals will remedy the grievances of all the minority groups living under grave oppression in the Socialist Republic of Rumania, and will promote a peaceful co-existence between Western capitalist democracies and the Socialist Nations without endangering the rightful interests of the Rumanian and the Hungarian people.

October 1980. Cluj - Kolozsvár

Signed:

THE SOCIALIST FEDERATION OF HUNGARIANS IN RUMANIA.

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GAVRIL OLTEANU, the mass-murderer of Szárazajta, who single-handedly decapitated fifteen Hungarian farmers with an axe in 1944, after the farmers were captured and tied up by the invading Rumanian soldiers, lives today in complete freedom and comfort in Fileháza (Fileu) on government pension as retired “hunting inspector”.

NEW ATTEMPT TO STRANGULATE THE CHURCHES

The number of divinity students authorized to prepare for the ministry is strictly limited today in Rumania by an ever decreasing quota. In 1980 sixtyfive Hungarian protestant students applied for permission to enroll in the Theology, but only seven received authorization from Bucharest.

JOB DISCRIMINATION AND DISCRIMINATION ON THE JOB

Wherever new industrial plants are established by the Rumanian government, Hungarians are hired only when there are not enough Rumanian applicants. Those who are allowed to work are constantly harassed by their Rumanian superiors. Hungarians are called “bozgore” meaning '‘homeless stranger” or “vagabond”, and are forbidden to use their mother tongue. Hungarian children, though native to the land, are exposed to the same humiliation and persecution in the schools.

IV

THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY