The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-04-01 / 4. szám
REPORTS FROM TRANSYLVANIA Szamosujvár — Gherla, January, 1982: Tibor Negrucz, former Hungarian merchant of Armenian descent, now garbage worker, wa3 beaten and jailed for thirty days without hearing for singing Hungarian folk songs while at work and refusing to quit when so ordered by the police. Nagysármás — Sannas, January 1982: The official census of the Rumanian government shows 1,211 Hungarians in this Transylvanian town. However the roster of the local Hungarian Calvinist Church alone lists 2,300 active members of the congregation, with street and house numbers. Medgyes — Medias, December 1981: Peter Bugós and László Selmeci, workers in the city’s shoe factory were overheard by their Rumanian supervisor talking Hungarian among themselves. They lost their jobs immediately and were put to work by 'the police with a street cleaning crew from the nearby state prison. There was no official hearing granted. Marosvásárhely — Tirgu Mures, February 1982: Seventh Grade teacher, Ms. Timaveanu, in the Papiu Ilarion líceum — formerly the Hungarian Calvinist school — tells her pupils that they are living now in Great Rumania, therefore they are not allowed to speak any other language but Rumanian. Children caught talking Hungarian on the play ground during recess, receive from her 25 licks with a heavy oak stick. Who are Keeping Dictator Ceausescu in Power? It is a fact that today’s Rumania is the richest country in Europe where natural resources and the fertility of its soil are concerned. It is also a fact that among all the European countries Rumania offers the lowest standard of living to its multinational population. In spite of the fertile soil, the people in Ceausescu’s Rumania have not enough to eat. This is a fact reported many times in these last years by several newspapers all over the world. The reason for the failure is simple: the brutal police regime of Ceausescu and his extravagant self-adulation did not gain the cooperation of the workers. However, in spite of all this, his regime still stands and gains momentum in his ultimate goal: to exterminate all the ethnic minorities of the country, all five millions of them. What keeps him in the saddle? Outside aid given to him by large American, German and probably other companies. The Preferred Nation status to Rumania is being granted year after year due to the pressure of large American companies who aim to profit on the sweat of oppressed Rumanian workers by dealing with their oppressor. Instead of using their influence to gain some concessions for the benefit of the suffering people of that country, they close their eyes to all the abuses and are interested only in the profits they may acquire on cheap goods made by slave labor. In our next issue, after thorough research, we shall reveal the names of these companies in order that those who work for the betterment of human life by fighting oppression, discrimination and genocide may know who those are willing to aid the oppressor for profit. Our Reports Reviewed in Europe The EUROPA ETHNICA, a Quarterly for Problems of Nationalities and Organ of the “International Institute of Nationality Rights and Regionalism” in Vienna, Austria, published in its 38th Volume, No. 4, 1981 the following review of our work: “The Transylvanian World Federation publishes the Transylvanian Quarterly and in number of this quarterly we find very interesting articles about the Transylvanian Magyars, but in the issue of July 1981 also a Statement of this organization and its affiliated groups addressed to the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives on the subjects of terminating the previously granted most favored nation treatment to the Socialist Republic of Rumania by the U. S. A. The Statement underlines the fact that the Rumanian Government adopts an extremely brutal ultranationalistic policy in a multi-national country, this especially against the Hungarians. During the World War II and after more than 200,000 Transylvanian Hungarians were killed or died in the forced labor camps in Rumania. This was growing more after the rise of Ceausescu, the new Rumanian dictator who transformed the post-war Marxist regime into a national-socialist (NAZI) dictatorship by declaring at the Ninth Communist Party Congress in 1965: Rumania is an uniform national State, its territory occupied by one nation, which was formed by concrete historical events, and which resulted in the Rumanian Socialist Nation. Then follows a long list of crimes perpetrated by the Rumanian Government against the Magyar ethnic minority in Rumania. The U. S. House of Representatives is begged to terminate the treatment of Rumania under the rule of the clause of the most favored nation on ground of extinguishing the ethnic minorities.” THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY VI
