The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-01-01 / 1. szám
The Transylvanian Quarterly TRANSYLVANIA is part of the Carpathian Basin, which is a compact geographical, economical and cultural unit, inhabited by Hungarians since 985 A.D. After World War I, the Eastern part of Hungary, including Transylvania, the Banat, and part of the Great Hungarian Plain was given to Rumania, 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 status under 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 Ceausescu’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. 10 — January, 1982 Published by the U.S. Branches of the Transylvanian World Federation and Affiliated Organizations. Editors: A. Wasa de Czege and István Zolcsák Assistant Editor: Mrs. Anne Fay Atzél Washington Representative: Mrs. Ilona Boisaenin Editorial Office: American Hungarian Literary Guild Rt. 1, Box 59 — Astor, Florida 32002 GENOCIDE! In 1948 the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide accepted the following as a definition of one of the ways by which the crime of GENOCIDE may be committed: “The systematic destruction of historical or religious monuments or their diversion to alien uses. Destruction or dispersion of historical, artistic, or religious values and objects.” The New World Dictionary defines genocide as “a program of action intended to destroy a national or ethnic group.” The actions of the government of the Socialist Republic of Rumania toward the Hungarian national minority of Transylvania correspond with both of these definitions. The most objective observer must admit that since 1974 the Rumanian government has embarked on and continuously increases their brutal course of destruction of the native Hungarian population of Transylvania.
