The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1983 (10. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1983-10-01 / 10. szám
Newest Statement of the TRANSYLVANIAN UNDERGROUND The illegally printed organ of the Transylvanian underground named ELLENPONTOK (Counterpoints) thought to have been eradicated by the Rumanian Political Police (Securitate) after a chain of arrests, beatings and tortures at the beginning of this year, suddenly reappeared again with the following statement: ‘Those in the outside world who have preserved the sensitivity of their conscience watched with disbelief and helpless consternation all that happened to us, Transylvanian Hungarians, during the last decades. Their disbelief and anxiety was not just for our sake alone, but for the future of the Rumanian people also. “We Hungarians were forced to reach the conclusion, which the outer-world is only now beginning to realize, namely that the existing Rumanian regime can not be accepted anymore as partner in an attempt to reach any kind of decent corrective resolution toward a politically sober cooperation between government and people. The deteriorated morality of this government makes it unfit for any kind of orderly operation and its power-logic is motivated by factors which makes it dangerous toward its own people as well as toward the survival of minorities under its rule. “We find that a new consensus has arisen within the entire Transylvanian Hungarian nation. Regardless of ideology, regardless of differences in class or in functions of each individual within the system, the immediate danger and the feeling of mutual responsibility has united all of us in the desire for a radical change in our situation. We will have to try again, as so many times during our history, to create a new world out of nothing. To restore our equality with the rest of our fellowmen in this world, and try to achive that common good, which lies in the effective denial and rejection of the system established today above and against us. “It was indeed a positive experience for us to learn that the supportive attention and the justified concern of the people of the Hungarian People’s Republic, and presumably of those in other Socialist THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY States are on our side in this struggle, within the limits of diplomacy, of course, and within the framework of the present-day political structures. “In our judgment this international concern and sympathy toward our cause can in no way be regarded as an “intervention” into the internal affairs of our country or as an “infringement” of Rumanian sovereignity. Infrigement of sovereignity can come to exist only where a government carries out responsibilities entrusted to it by the people it rules. Not only that the Rumanian government has never done anything for us, Transylvanian Hungarians, but it exerts an unprecedented terror upon the Rumanian population also.” Signed: “Editors of the Ellenpontok.” ☆ ☆ EUROPA-PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS RUMANIA Sir Alan Tyrrell, member of the British Parliament and delegate to the “Europa-parliament” a probative organization of West-European states meeting in Strassburg, West Germany, filed a written protest with the Inter-Political Committee of that organization, denouncing the treatment of the Transylvanian Hungarians by the government of nationalcommunist Rumania. Sir Tyrrell demanded greater publicity for the abuses the native Hungarian population of Transylvania is being exposed to by the Rumanian government and its over-zealous agencies. He listed 24 complaints against the Ceausescu regime, including the disappearance of several young Hungarian intellectuals, who dared to speak up against the systematic oppression of the almost three million strong native Hungarian population of Runmanianoccupied Transylvania. “A government” — said Tyrrell — “which is capable of punishing its citizens with six years in prison for smuggling a Bible into the country, deserves contempt instead of aid from the community of nations. It is high time that we re-examine our relations with Rumania!” At the end of its summer-session the Europaparliament unanimously condemned Rumania for its treatment of the Hungarian national minority. Your Financial Help is Needed So We. Can Continue Publishing This Magazine! V i
