The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1982-08-01 / 8. szám

3. Urges the United States Helsinki Commission to block the selection of Bucharest, Rumania as the next location for the review of the Final Acts of the Helsinki Agreement by the Com­mission for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Be it further resolved that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to President Reagan, the members of the Georgia Congressional Delegation, the United States State Department, the Commission for Security and Co­operation in Europe, the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Voice of America. In the House: Read and Adopted, March 26, 1982. Glenn W. Ellard, Clerk. * * DEATH-CAMPS IN RUMANIA (Genocide and Ethnocide in Rumania, page 100.) For the annihilation of the nationalities, the Rumanian Socialist Republic set up eleven larger and several smaller concentration camps in the marshes of the Danube delta. Seventy-eight percent of these prisoners were Hungarians, who, in many cases, were interned together with their families and children. This fact shows by itself that the Rumanian Socialist Republic or better: the Rumanian National Socialist Republic put the camps in the service of the anti-Hungarian racial war. In these death camps perished about forty thousand Hungarian men, women and children. George Pataki, member of the Rumanian Philatelic Club writes in an article, published April 9, 1979 in the LINN’S STAMP NEWS, page 68: “. . . in 11 labor camps about 100,000 men and women were digging on the arid soil of Dobruja exposed to hardship, physical and mental tortures, diseases and death . . . sent there for almost any kind of political offense. Expressing discontent, telling a political joke or listening to foreign broadcasts were sufficient causes to be sent to the canal and become a tiventieth century slave. Many could not survive of hard labor or the violence of sadistic guards and were buried under six feet of heavy rocks . . VI Genocide and Ethnocide in Rumania! Under the above title a 124 page report was in­troduced by Mr. István Zolcsák, chairman of the Committee of International Relations, at the Inter­national Conference on Genocide in Tel Aviv, Israel. The letter of invitation to the conference was signed by Israel W. Charny, Ph.D., Executive Director, and contained the following statements: “This Conference to be held in Israel in June 1982 will be the first assembly of community leaders and professionals from many diciplines to cooperate in applying established methods of inquiry to the critical issue of genocide TO ALL PEOPLES. The goal of the conference throughout is to project GENOCIDE as a universal problem in the history and future of all peoples; to honor the national and historic concerns of each people who has been fated to suffer a tragedy of mass destruc­tion; and at the same time to correlate these con­cerns with one another so that every event of GENOCIDE also reflects and articulates a concern for the destruction of all peoples. The Conference will not be merely an historical view of the past, but an effort to broaden under­standing of early warning signs that procede in­stances of genocide, that still happen year after year, so that greater efforts can be made at preven­tion. The Conference is planned to make a real con­tribution towards the prevention of future cala­mities through understanding what each of the professions can contribute towards prediction, pre­vention and intervention. Please join us in our effort to bring together what has been learned about the past in order that more people can have, a future!” The well documented report introduced by Mr. Zolcsák to the Conference contains several maps and statistics, pages of certified testimonies as well as detailed proof of genocide the Hungarian popula­tion of Transylvania and Moldavia have been ex­posed to for the last twenty years by the Rumanian government. Under the sub-title “General Characteristics of Ethnocide in Rumania” we read: “Rumania leads a well planned and systematic­ally executed campaign to eliminate the national minorities through forceful assimilation into the Rumanian natonality. Guarantees of minority rights are not observed. The absolute refusal to allow the minorities self-determination, autonomy or even THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY

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