1988. június (138-158. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
©2ÉM Editor: György Krassó » 24/D Littie Russell Street ‘ London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (from abroad 441-430 2126) 149/1988 (E) l6th June, 1988 Commemoration in Budapest fór The Victims of the Revolution Truncheons. Tear Gas and Arrests Today is the 30th anniversary of the execution of Imre Nagy and his colleagues when the govemraent, breaking its promise that nőne who had escaped to the Yugoslav Embassy on November 4th 1956 would be harmed, transported them to Románia and organised a secret trial. This anniversary is alsó a memóriái day fór thousands of victims of the cruel reprisals which followed the revolution in 1956: the nameless young heroes who took up arms fór their homeland who even with their last breath őried out fór Hungárián freedom and independence. The provisional council of the Historical Jurisdiction Committee, the INCONNU group and the Network Fór Free Initiatives issued an announcement in which the anniversary events appear: 11 am. Tribute to the 301st plot in the Rákoskeresztúr Cemetery. Meet at main entrance at 10.30. 4.30 pm. Commemoration at the Batthyány-Imre Nagy sanctuary lamp. 6.30 pm. Prayer fór the martyrs at the Franciscan church on Mártírok Street. Another leaflet - signed by the Hungárián Democratic Fórum - called upon those interes- ted to meet at Heroes Square at 3 pm to commemorate the victims of the reprisals. Police wamed the organisers that they would nőt permit the gatherings at the Sanctuary Lamp or in Heroes Bquare. Those executed lie in the furthest 301st plot of the Rákoskeresztúr Cemetery in nameless uncared fór graves. Recently young people from Budapest have scythed down the bushes and tidied up the graves. This morning they Iáid one white chrysanthemum on each grave. The INCONNU group carved a 2g metre high oak monument which they charred black and placed a four pointed crown surrounded by barbed wire on its summit. They wapited to raise it on the plot’s Central point and carved the words "1956 Pro Patria" on its base. However it was confiscated by piain clothes police at 9.15 am at Jenő Nagy’s house - he is the organiser of the ABC press and editor of the samizdat journal Demokrata (The Democrat). Nagy and Tibor Philipp, a member of the INCONNU groüp,were taken to police headquarters in the Illrd district. Nagy was released in the early afternoon bút Philipp had a sit in demanding either the return of the monument or a legal record of its confiscation. At 10.30 300 people gathered at the cemetery’s main entrance bút the piain clothes and uniformod police which surrounded them did nőt interfere. The march to the graves was led by Sándor Racz, Jenő Fonay, Elek Nagy, Tibor Pakh and other Budapest and provinciái former political prisoners. The march increased to 500 and INCONNU distributed a photograph of their monument. Racz reminded those present that simullaneously in Paris in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery a monument to the victims was being unveiled. Tamas Molnár demanded the rehabilitation of those persecuted and of the relatives of those executed, finishing "Long Live an Independent, Free and Democratic Hungary!". Then the poet Gáspár Nagy read out his work "Forever Summer: I am over 9" fór which he was sentenced to silence in 1984. Following other speeches Imre Mécs, an engineer, and László Hegedűs, former political prisoners, read out a list of the names, occupations, birth dates and execution dates of 271 executed revolutionaries, Then Racz asked priests of different denominations to bless the graves. Bouquets and wreathes were 1 _________________Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
