The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-10-01 / 10. szám
The Transylvanian Quarterly TRANSYLVANIA U part of the Carpathian Barin, which ia a compact geographical, economical and cultural unit, inhabited by Hungarian) since 985 AD. After World War I, the Eastern part of Hungary, including Transylvania, the Banat, and part of the Great Hungarian Plain was given to Romania, without the consent of the native population. Thus the thousand year old Hungarian kingdom, and the long established economical, political and cultural unit of the Carpathian Basin was broken up, causing disruption, oppression, and economic hardship. The Hungarian population of Transylvania was thrown into minority statas ander foreign occupation, and was forced to endure extreme discrimination and injustice. During the last sixty years of Rumanian occupation more than one million Hungarians were killed, deported or forced under pressure to leave their homeland. Today, still close to three million strong, the native Hungarians of Transylvania are subjected to large-scale cultural genocide under the barbaric dictatorship of Ceauaescu’s communist regime. WE APPEAL TO THE CONSCIENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: IN THE NAME OF GOD, SAVE THE TRANSYLVANIAN HUNGARIANS! Dedicated to the oppressed peoples of Transylvania, to their right to self-determination, self-administration, and the free development of their cultural heritage. NO. 13 — OCTOBER, 1982 Published by the U.S. Branches of the Transylvanian World Federation and Affiliated Organizations. Editors: A. Wass de Czege and István Zolcsák Assistant Editor: Mrs. Anne Fay Atzél Washington Representative: Mrs. Ilona Boissenin Editorial Office: American Hungarian Literary Guild Rt. 1, Box 59 — Astor, Florida 32002 Administration urged to warn Rumania The Senate Finance Committe approved a resolution callin on the Reagen administration to get “creditable” assurances from the government of the Socialist Republic of Rumania that it will take urgent steps to improve its emigration process and its treatment of religious groups and ethnic minorities, mainly Hungarians — the Associated Press reported on August 12, 1982. We, Americans of Hungarian descent, greatly appreciate the fact that more and more Senators and Congressmen are becoming aware of the cruel oppression and cultural genocide perpetrated by the government of Dictator Ceausescu against the almost three-million-strong native Hungarian population still struggling to survive in Transylvania. We implore our Government to abstain from giving any further aid, loan, or privileges of any kind to Rumania, until the government of that country relinquishes its NAZI tactics exerted today upon the native Hungarian population of Transylvania, threatening them with total annihilation, and restores the basic rights of all the minorities as stipulated in the Helsinki Final Act and the very constitution of the Socialist Republic of Rumania. These basic rights include: 1. The free use of the Hungarian language as the second official language in Transylvania. 2. The right of all national minorities to worship freely in the churches of their choice, the right to their own ethnic culture and to the advancement of this culture. — Continued on page 2 —
