Magyar Egyház, 1982 (61. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-01-01 / 1-2. szám
vagyak eGyftnz 10. oldal AMERICAN CONGRESSMEN FOR OUR HUNGARIAN BRETHREN IN TRANSYLVANIA Congress of tlje ülníteb States Sjousit of fitprtííentatibcsf ÍHaítlliigton. 33.C. 20515 December 8, 1981 The Honorable Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Secretary of State Department of State Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Haig, We, the undersigned, members of the United States House of Representatives, would like to call your attention to the continued deprivation of human and self-determination rights of the national minorities in Transylvania, particularly those Hungarians assigned to Romania in the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty. The-e 2.5 million Hungarians of Transylvania, a province that bad constituted part of the Hungarian Kingdom for a millennium, was assigned originally to Romania in the 1920 Trianon Peace Treaty —which the United States had never ratified. The fate of the Transylvanian Hungarians was systematic denationalization and discrimination under the royal Romanian regime as well as under Antonescu's Fascists and the Communist rule of Choorghiu-Dej and Ceaucescu. In the 1947 Peace Treaty, where the United States had yielded to extreme Soviet pressure to allow the reattachment of Northern Transylvania to Romania, the four great powers compelled Romania to guarantee the huma- rights of its citizens, a promise repeatedly broken since 1947. For more than two decades, Romanian pressures against the Hungarians of Transylvania assumed characterstics of ethnoeide including complete suppression of the social and youth activities and the internal independence of the Hungarian churches; destruction of the Hungarian-language schools still in existence in 1958 and il-eir replacement with a steadily declining number of Hungarian-language "sections" in the Romanian schools; the systematic destruction of the documents of the Hungarian past of the province and finally a conscious dispersal of the Hungarian intelligentsia and the settlement of large number of Romanians amidst the Hungarian regions of the province. Congress of tí)t Shiiteb States Jjouáe of iRtpresfentatibei Klasfjlnglon, J3.C. 20515 Honorable Alexander M. Haig Secretary of State Page 2 Under these circumstances mav we ask you to discuss the above grave violations of human rights and national self-determination guaranteed in the Declaration of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe of August ], 1975 and in the International Covenant on Civic and Political Rights in bilateral negotiations with the government of the Socialist Repv'.ilic of Romania and in talks with the other guarantors of the 194/ Peace Treaty --the United Kingdom, France and the U.S.S.R. The issue concerns both human rights and the self-determination rights of the Hungarians in Romania, living mostly in Transylvania. To do so would be in harmony with our 205-vear old ideals of libertv, self-determination and human rights so eloquently expressed in the Declaration of Indepndenc.e and steadily pursued hv many Administrations. With best regards.
