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

1982-08-01 / 8. szám

independent decision making in local issues, is prevailing. Hungarian schools of many centuries have been eliminated. All Hungarian universities were merged into the new, Rumanian institutions. This is an outrageous measure, considering that the Hungarian minority in Rumania forms an immense population. One-third of the countries in the world today have fewer inhabitants than the number of Hungarians in Transylvania.

The Rumanian Government breaks up homogeneous Hungarian ethnic communities, by controlling labor and housing markets. Rumanians in great numbers are being settled in purely Hungarian areas to work in the newly constructed factories, while the native Hungarians are forced to move to Rumanian areas.

Bilingualism does not exist. All Hungarian street names and road signs are eliminated. The use of the Hungarian language, even in private conversation, is strictly forbidden. A Swiss newspaperman reported that while in Transylvania he saw only one sign in Hungarian: it hung on the wall of the village tavern in the purely Hungarian village of Szék, declaring “IT IS FORBIDDEN TO SING IN HUNGARIAN. — Chief of police.”

All the church archives and libraries were confiscated and destroyed, rendering scientific research of the past impossible. The Rumanian government has openly embarked on a campaign against the Rom. Catholic, the Hungarian Reformed (Presbyterian) and German Lutheran Churches. The Rumanian government exercises a policy of total interference in ecclesiastical matters, regardless of their nature. For instance, any social or religious gathering must be approved by the State. Those who complain, clergymen or members of a congregation, are beaten, tortured and even killed. Between 1955 and 1980 87 clergymen were beaten to death by the dreaded SECURITATE (State Police) for complaining to visitors. It is indeed ironic that all this happens today in the very same TRANSYLVANIA, WHERE FREEDOM OF RELIGION WAS WRITTEN INTO LAW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY in 1568 A.D.

Decree/Law 225-1976 prohibits the accommodation of non-Rumanian citizens in private homes. The punishment for disobeying this law is a draconic fine of 15,000 Lei, about $1,200.00 which is imposed on the host. This law was ostensibly created for the protection of the State-owned lioted industry, and its discriminatory character is obvious. The three million Hungarians of Transylvania have the greatest number of relatives and potential visitors

THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY

entering the country, from Hungary as well as from other free countries in the West, whereto several hundred thousand Hungarians escaped since World War I, due to Rumania’s blatant intolerance of the non-Rumanian inhabitants.

The Rumanian government, through its academic mercenaries has utilized an uproven theory based largely on pseudoscientific speculation. According to this politically motivated theory the Rumanians are supposed to be the descendants of the ancient Dacians, a people whose last proven presence in the area predates the appearance of Rumanians by nine centuries.

Although this Theory has little credence in the eyes of any serious, non-Rumanian scholar, according to a world-wide resarch done on the subjet by the renown Neue Züricher Zeitung, it has been elevated to the level of STATE IDEOLOGY.

Rumania’s historians today stigmatize minority groups as “Intruders” who upset the social and cultural order of the “original inhabitants”, namely the Rumanians. While history, culture and geography clearly prove that the Hungarians as well as the other “minorities” were the original inhabitants who built the country, created the culture, long before the first Rumanian migrant workers — called Vlachs — entered the country from the Balkan.

In Rumania today minority children are taught that the cultural richness of the area is solely the result of “Rumanian creativity”, thereby making those children ashamed of their ethnic identity. Those few remaining schools which are still allowed to educate children in Hungarian, must use official textbooks which teach them that their nationality has no past in the area. Without past, by implication this nationality can have no future — unless, of course, it assimilates into the resplendent HERRENRASSE: the Rumanian people.

CONFISCATION OF CHURCH ARCHIVES

In 1948 the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide accepted the following definition as one of the ways by which the crime of cultural gencide may be committed:

“Systematic destruction of Historical or religious monuments or their diversion to alien uses, destruction or despersion of documents and objects of historical, artistic or religious value and of objects used in religious worship.” — U.N. Doc. E447

In Rumania today, Act No. 63 of November 2, 1974. Decree/Law 207-1974 are major tools used to eradicate the history of the Hungarian cultural

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