The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1983 (10. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1983-01-01 / 1. szám
The Transytvaniw! duerterfy TRANSYLVANIA is part of the Carpathian Basin, which is a compact geographical, economical and cultural unit, inhabited by Hungarians since 895 A.D. After World War I, the Eastern part of Hungary, including Transylvania, the Banat, and part of the Great Hungarian Plain was annexed by Rumania, without the consent of the native population. Thus the thousand yeaT 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, stiR 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. 14 — JANUARY, 1983 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 Polish Dissidents Deported To Rumania “Members of the Solidarity Movement in Poland are secretely deported into Rumania” reported the MONDE ET VIE in Paris on April 9, 1982. We quote from the French paper: “According to competent Ukrainian sources Rumania is Maintaining a concentration camp for members of the Polish Solidarity, arrested after the declaration of Martial Law in Poland on December 13, 1981. On December 27 several witnesses observed a train entering Rumania from the direction of Katowice. It contained 12 boxcars with Polish markings, pulled by a Rumanian locomotive. In each of the boxcars there were about 60 prisoners, the witnesses say. One of the witnesses, an Ukranian railroad worker, was able to exchange a few words with the prisoners who spoke Polish and claimed to be locked in without food for five days. The man, after speaking to them, rushed home to get some food, but when he returned he found the train surrounded by police and no one was allowed to go near. Next day three more similar transports crossed the border.” “The Western Press insists that Rumania is the most independent among the satellites of Moscow” and concludes the article in the Monde et Vie “nevertheless it seems to be also the most obedient servant.” A recent report from Transylvania underlines the validity of the eyewitness account, published by the French paper. On November 28, 1982, a Hungarian woman from Cluj (Kolozsvár) received permission from the Rumanian authorities to see her son who was sentenced to three years of hard labor on August 11, 1980, for singing the Hungarian anthem on a Saturday night while drunk. — continued on page 3 —
