The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1981-01-01 / 1. szám

The Transylvanian Quarterly

URSS

(UKIWIH»)

BORMR OF HUMARY DURIM TIC LAST iOOOIONC THOUSANOITtARS.

Dedicated to the oppressed peoples of Transylvania, to their right to self-determination, self-administration, and the free development of their cultural heritage.

NO. 6 — JANUARY, 1981

Published by the U.S. Branches of the Transylvanian World Federation and Affiliated Organizations.

Editors: A. Wass de Czege and István Zolcsák Washington Representative: Mrs. Ilona Boissenin

Editorial Office: American Hungarian Literary Guild Rt. 1, Box 59 — Astor, Florida 32002

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!

WE APPEAL TO OUR NEW GOVERNMENT!

In October 1976, then President-Elect Carter vowed uncompromising support of Human Rights. Previously, before elections, in a telegram sent to all Hungarian organizations in the United States, he stated: “When elected President I plan to make it understood that we want to see basic human rights respected, and this includes the rights of Hungarians wherever they may be... If any nation, whatever its political system, deprives its people of human rights, that fact will shape our attitude toward that nation’s government.” A few months later President Carter embraced in front of the White House the most cruel and determined offender of these very rights: dictator Ceausescu of Rumania.

During the four years of the Carter administration Rumania’s regime, the most barbaric dictatorship today on the face of the earth, enjoyed “preferred nation” status, which meant financial aid at the expense of the American taxpayers. In spite of the constant protest of one-hundred twenty-six congressmen, a number of senators and several American organizations, our government insisted that “aiding Rumania was in the interest of the United States” and that “the government of the Socialist Republic of Rumania will take into consideration the problems of the minorities.’’

Let us examine what the Rumanian government did during these four years in order to deserve the