ROMANIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL
CONGRESS
si
ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION
OF SOUTH FLORIDA
ROMANIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL
CONGRESS
si
ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION
OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Stimate domnule Redactor,
Alaturat va trimitem scrisoarea din 10 August 1998 catre
Presedintele Emil Constantinescu, privind refuzul primarului din comuna
Vârghis, judetul Covasna, de a da aprobare pentru ridicarea unei
cruci pe locul unde a fost biserica ortodoxa româna, darâmata
de horthisti în 1940.
Cazul crucii de la Vârghis nu este cazul unui oarecare
primar de comuna rurala care interzice, fara nici o motivare, ridicarea
unei cruci conform traditiei crestine. Acest caz este doar o veriga în
lungul lant al insultelor si actelor comise împotriva poporului român
de catre o fractiune horthista care intra în compunerea UDMR-ului.
Acest refuz dovedeste ca doctrina horthista a lui Dücsö
Csaba prin cartea sa "Fara mila" exista, ca ea este prezenta in mintea
si'n sufletul anumitor elemente din componenta UDMR-ului. Ca ea nu
a încetat niciodata de a exista. Ea declara ca "voi omorî
pe orice român care îmi va iesi în cale.... etc."
si a fost pusa în aplicare în 1940, începând cu
primele zile ale ocuparii Transilvaniei de Nord, teritoriu care la acea
vreme nu era sub stare de razboi. Cartea lui Dücsö Csaba a servit
ca manual de instruire a trupelor de ocupatie si a avut ca rezultat genocidul
împotriva poporului român, când peste sase mii de români
au fost executati, în paralel cu evacuarea fortata a cca 500.000
de români din teritoriul ocupat (vezi Raportul Comisiei Parlamentare
de audiere a persoanelor care dupa 22 Decembrie 1989 au fost obligate sa
paraseaca locul de munca si domiciliul din judetele Covasna si Harghita).
Dar aceasta doctrina este mentinuta în continuare
în vigoare. Dovada ne-o da organizatia "Hungarian Freedom Fighter
Federation" care în 1983, în propriul organ oficial se
adreseaza membrilor sai, spunând: "sa pronuntam ca pe o rugaciune
de încurajare, ca pe un juramânt de credinta cuvintele lui
Dücsö Csaba: "voi omorî pe fiecare român care-mi
va iesi în cale...." (Let us utter like a prayer of encouragement,
like an oath of faith, Dücsö Csaba's words: "I shall kill
each Romanian crossing my way...." Continuarea acestei doctrine
este asigurata pâna în prezent de ramura extremista a UDMR-ului,
care este un partid format pe baza etnica, ca atare cuprinde toate orientarile
politice ale unei grupe etnice, inclusiv extremisti, care la ora actuala
dau chiar tonul în UDMR..
In cadrul UDMR, aripa extremista continua aplicarea doctrinei
lor horthiste fara a fi stingherita nici macar de autoritatile române.
Iata câteva exemple:
1. Mihaila Cofariu, român, victima a luptei de strada din
Martie 1990 la Târgu Mures, pe care propaganda horthista l-a prezentat
la Televiziune drept ungur batut de români.
2. Operatia de curatire etnica în judetele Harghita si
Covasna în 1990, prin evacuarea fortata a cca 4.000 de români,
în continuarea alungarii sutelor de mii de români din Transilvania
de Nord în timpul ocupatiei horthiste.
3. Incercarile de desinformare si de defaimare a României
de catre Laszlo Tökes cu prilejul unei conferinte de presa în
Austria, în care între altele a cerut autonomie pentru Transilvania
în care, sustine Tökes, ar trai 3.500.000 de maghiari.
De asemenea, încercari de defaimare facute
de catre Episcopul de Cluj-Napoca Calha Kalman cu prilejul vizitei sale
în Australia în 1997 în scop de propaganda pentru autonomia
Transilvaniei.
4. Izgonirea Maicutelor românce greco-catolice din Odorhei,
cu întreg scandalul international declansat de aceasta actiune.
5. Incercarea instalarii unei placi comemorative la Dej în
cinstirea lui Daday Lorand, alias Dücsö Csaba, autorul cartii
"Fara mila". Cartea aceasta este atât de incriminatorie pentru maghiari
încât dupa razboi statul maghiar a negat existenta ei, dupa
ce a retras-o din circulatie si din biblioteci. Aceasta carte a disparut
si din biblioteca Universitatii din Cluj, dar se afla totusi pe undeva,
si noi anexam în copie câteva pagini.
Mentionam de asemenea ca scriitorul si ziaristul
secui Gyorgy Ferencz, îngrozit de comportarea horthistilor, a fugit
din Cluj, scriind cartea "The Golgota of Transylvania", unde încrimineaza
purtarea lor si declara ca se simte rusinat de a se fi nascut maghiar.
Gyorgy Ferencz a fost condamnat la moarte (în contumacie) în
Ungaria, ceea ce ne scuteste de alte comentarii asupra caracterului regimului
horthist.
6. Refuzul de aprobare pentru ridicarea unei crucii la Vârghis
si înca multe altele pe care nu le mai mentionam.
Numai din enumerarea acestor câteva cazuri
se poate vedea rolul nefast pe care îl joaca aripa extremista a UDMR-ului
în cadrul Coalitiei guvernamentale din România.
Aceasta aripa se face vinovata de atâtea stagnari
în democratizarea României, iar guvernul român se face
vinovat de apatie politica în raport cu gravele prejudicii ce se
aduc pe plan intern si international prin lipsa unor masuri corespunzatoare.
Conducatorii României de azi trebue sa înteleaga
ca nu pot accepta o coalitie cu un UDMR în care exista o fractiune
horthista, pentruca asta înseamna a le accepta si idealul. Trebue
sa ceara conducerii UDMR-ului sa-si asaneze compozitia. Ungurii cinstiti
trebue sa accepte sa se desprinda de extremisti, de partasi horthisti,
pe care de altfel numeric îi credem destul de restrânsi.
30 August 1998
Cu deosebita stima
George Duma, Ph.D. Traian Golea
President
President
Rom. American National Congress
Rom. Association of South Florida
1730 3rd Ave., Apt. # 1202
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. # 601
San Diego, CA. 92101, U.S.A.
Hallandale, FL 33009, U.S.A.
ROMANIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
and
ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA
10 August
1998
Domnului Emil Constantinescu
Presedinte al României
Palatul Cotroceni
Bucuresti
Stimate Domnule Presedinte,
Cu onoare Va prezentam protestul nostru
vehement adresat Domniei Voastre ca instanta superioara administrativa
a Statului Român, împotriva refuzului primarului din comuna
Vârghis, jud. Covasna, dl Farkas Sandor, de a aproba ridicarea uneui
cruci pe locul unde a fost Biserica Ortodoxa Româna din respectiva
comuna si care a fost complet darâmata de catre horthisti în
1940, iar preotul Ioan
Popa a fost alungat peste hotare.
Refuzul Primarului Farkas Sandor reprezinta
continuarea peste decade si pâna în zilele noastre a atitudinii
fascisto-hortiste de neconceput, exprimata de Dücsö Csaba în
cartea sa "Nincs Kegyelem", (Fara mila), publicata în 1939, prin
care s'a incitat poporul maghiar la genocid împotriva poporului român,
si care îndemn criminal a fost reînviat în 1984 de catre
Federatia Luptatorilor Maghiari
pentru Libertate, (Hungarian Freedom Fighters
Federation). Acest refuz al primarului din Vârghis este si
o sfidare atât a Românilor în general, cât si a
actualei coalitii guvernamentale din care UDMR-ul face parte. Anexam la
prezenta:
- Scrisoarea noastra din 1 August 1998,
- Fotografia ruinelor numitei biserici
din comuna Vârghis,
- precum si scrisoarea de refuz a numitului
primar.
Prin posta separata va trimitem o serie
de fotografii-documente, care arata ruinele a numeroase biserici românesti,
ortodoxe si greco-catolice, complet darâmate de horthisti si care
nu au mai putut fi reconstruite nici sub domnia regimului anti-crestin,
anti-român al comunistilor si nici din 1990 încoace din cauza
adversitatii fara masura a ungurilor, cât si marei lor influente
politice în treburile
României.
Pe lânga suferintele si umilintele
înghitite de românii din aceste regiuni, mai este si o problema
de demnitate omeneasca si nationala, care ne obliga sa cerem Presedintelui
României sa apere interesele poporului român.
Cu deosebita stima
George Duma, Ph.D. Traian Golea
President
President
Rom. American National
Congress
Rom. Association of South Florida
1730 3rd Ave., Apt. # 1202
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. # 601
San Diego, CA. 92101, U.S.A.
Hallandale, FL 33009, U.S.A.
August 1, 1998
Dear Sir,
We would like to bring to your attention an incident that
flagrantly violates the rights of the Romanian people.
In the village of Vârghis, county of Covasna, existed
a Romanian Orthodox Church that in 1940, immediately after the cessation
of Northern Transylvania, together with 16 other Romanian churches from
Northern Transylvania, was erased from the face of the earth, and its priest,
Ioan Popa, together with a group of 142 Orthodox and Greek Catholic priests
were expelled over the borders into Southern Transylvania that remained
under Romanian administration. At the present time Ioan Popa is retired
and lives in Târnaveni, county of Mures. The above information was
confirmed by him and his family; all documents were given as testimony
at the Mitropolia from Sibiu and were published by
Ioan Ciolan, the publishing house "Europe" from Rome, Italy, under
the title "The Last Hungarian Persecution", and partly reprinted in "S.O.S.
Transylvania" by Traian Golea, in "Romanian Historical Studies",
USA, 1993 (see attached the picture of the church and of the priest Ioan
Popa).
On the land of the former church there is a school, and
the local Orthodox Romanians decided to erect a cross in memory of the
demolished church. The mayor of the village of Vârghis, Farkas Sandor,
without any justification, refused to issue a permit for the placement
of a cross (see attached the letter number 292, from June 3, 1997, recently
received).
After the period of 1989 the Hungarians built a
number of monuments, mainly in the counties of Harghita and Covasna, (see
the book "Monuments Non Grata", by Dr. Petre Turlea, published by "Bravo
Press", Romania, 1996, page 11). The majority of these monuments are dedicated
to the memory of personalities that fought against Romanians, and some
of them to honor the so called heroes that later were proven to be assassins.
These monuments were erected under the excessive tolerance of
the previous Romanian governments.
We consider it our duty to bring the above mentioned incident
to the attention of the present government of Romania, namely that the
mayor of the village Vârghis refused to give the permit for the erection
of a cross on the land of the former Romanian Orthodox Church that was
demolished by the Horthist Hungarian administration. The Romanians from
all over, those from the fatherland and those from diaspora, protest against
these chauvinistic anti-Romanian attitudes of the mayor from Vârghis
and demand to respect the rights of the Romanian population from the district
of Harghita and Covasna. At the same time we request that the present Romanian
government intervene to void the decision of the mayor from Vârghis,
that forbids the elementary right of the Romanians to erect the cross that
is the basis of this ethnic conflict.
To better understand the motives and especially the spirit
of the attitudes of the Hungarians from Transylvania, we would remember
their behavior beginning with World War II. During the Horthist regime,
the Hungarians from Transylvania were registered en masse in the Horthist
organization "Madosz", that formed the base of the Hungarian administration
in the period of occupation of Northern Transylvania, 1940-1945. In 1945,
when Northern Transylvania was returned to Romania, the entire fascist-horthist
organization "Madosz" joined in its entirety the communist party. In "The
History of the Romanian Communist Party", Hoover Institution Press, California,
1979, the American historian Robert King, on page 68 states that "The
Romanian Communist Party worked in Transylvania through the Popular Hungarian
Union (Madosz), who in 1945 had 250,000 members." This Hungarian Union
delivered to the communist government 80% of the apparatus of terror of
the communists in Transylvania, whose victims was the Romanian population.
For a more complete documentation we add: From the archives
of the city of Cluj, Octavian Capatina documents in "The Towns of Transylvania"
the following ethnic distribution of the members of the "Romanian Communist
Party". For the region of Cluj, according to the statistics from 1956,
20.4% were Hungarians. The Romanian Communist Party had 288 Romanians,
2490 Hungarians, 195 Jews, and 8 Germans. In other words, while the Romanians
represented 80% of the population, they numbered only 20% in the Romanian
Communist Party. During the time when in Romania the Romanian anti-communists
were hunted and murdered, the chauvinist Hungarian Horthists from Transilvania
continued, as members of the Communist Party the role as executioners of
the Romanians. As Robert King states on page 132, "It was the Soviet strategy
to use foreign ethnic groups to achieve control over Romania." On page
38, the same Robert King affirms: "The Romanians refused membership
in the Romanian Communist Party which showed a clear preference for the
separatist minorities." The affirmation of Gaspar Tamas, the son of a rabbi
from Cluj, Transylvania and, according to his own statements, educated
in strict marxist spirit, later a representative in
the Parliament of Budapest after 1945, (see "Towns of Transylvania")
confirms our theory: "Today one underlines the weakness of the Romanian
Communist Party in 1945, but one forgets the adhesion to the Romanian Communist
Party in Transykvania, of the Hungarian Popular Union, (Madosz), whuch
numbered 600.000 members. The Hungarian communists from Transylvania played
a decisive role in the implementation of communism in Romania." In other
words, the entire Hungarian Union from Transylvania that, according to
Robert King numbered 250,000 members, and according to Gaspar Tamas, numbered
600.000 members, switched in a block, first from the fascism of Horthy
to the communism of Ana Pauker and Vasile Luca, and later, in 1989, switched
again in a block from the Ceausescu's communist regime to the Democratic
Convention that governs today Romania. The Hungarian extorsions against
previous governments switched today to the
Democratic Convention without changing anything except the cloak. To
be precise, the Democratic Convention, in order to remain in power, tolerates
the extortions of the UDMR, sacrificing Romanian interests.
What does the Romanian government do about all the
sufferings and injustices accumulated on the back of the Romanians for
so many decades that, finally, after 50 years we have a government elected
by us that should at least demand from the Hungarian government:
- Compensation for the 16 demolished churches during the Horthist
occupation.
- Compensation and restitution for the descendants of those
over 6.000 Romanians killed, as they did in Ip, Traznea, Sarmas, etc.
- Compensation and restitution for those over 500.000 Romanians
who were beaten and expelled by the Horthy regime during the Horthist occupation
of Northern Transylvania in the period 1940-1945, and for their properties
left behind.
- The same for those over 4.000 Romanians forcefully evacuated
from their homes and properties after 1990 from the counties of Harghita
and Covasna, who do not have even the right to erect symbols that they
once lived there as Romanians, as an illustration of which is the refusal
to erect a cross in Vârghis on the place of the demolished Romanian
church.
Not to demand reparations, restitutions and compensations
and not even to ask for forgiveness by the present Romanian government
from the Hungarian government for the atrocities committed by the chauvinistic
racist Hungarians means that we accept the "Dictate of Vienna" and the
following holocaust against the Romanians in Northern Transylvania.
Sincerely, yours
George Duma, Ph.D. Traian Golea
President
President
Rom. American National Congress
Rom. Association of South Florida
1730 3rd Ave., Apt. # 1202
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. # 601
San Diego, CA. 92101, U.S.A.
Hallandale, FL 33009, U.S.A.
THE ROMANIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
and
THE ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA
July 15, 1998
Dear Congressman,
Due to permanent hostile Hungarian propaganda of a small fraction
of the Hungarian Minority of Romania, which is trying to discredit and
destabilize Romania on her way toward democracy, actions which compels
us to reveal a few aspects and documents concerning the conflictive relations
between the two nations.
Enclosed you will find, for your information, the following 12
attachments:
Attachment 1. A Report on the violation of Human Rights of
the Romanian community from the village of Varghis, county of Covasna.
Attachment 2. The refusal of the Mayor of Varghis, county
of Covasna, to the Romanian community of Varghis to erect a Memorial Cross
on the place where was the Romanian Orthodox Church demolished by the Hungarian
Horthist regime in 1940.
Attachment 3. A short history of Transylvania as historical
background.
Attachment 4. Excerpts from a Report of the Romanian Parliament's
Hearings Commission for the events occurred in the counties Harghita and
Covasna in the years 1990-1991.
Attachment 5. Oliver Lustig's booklet which documents the
Hungarian holocaust against the Jews and Romanians in Northern Transylvania
in the period of horthist occupation 1940-1945.
Attachment 6. The "Losses of Hungarian Jewry" in 1940-1945,
issued by the "World Jewish Congress, Hungarian Section".
Attachment 7. A German map showing the 2 counties in Romania,
Harghita and Covasma, where the Hungarians are in majority.
Attachment 8. "Preliminary data of the latest official Census
in Romania" in 1992.
Attachment 9. Excerpts from Dücsö Csaba's book,
printed in 1939, which incites the Hungarians to murder Romanians.
Attachment 10. Dücsö Csaba revived in 1983 by the
"Hungarian Freedom Fighters" organization.
Attachment 11. Laszlo Tökes, the honorary president of
the Hungarian ethnic political organization in Romania, UDMR, claiming
Autonomy for Transylvania, asserts that in Romania are 3.5 mil. Hungarians,
while the active president of the UDMR, Marko Bela, considers that there
are only 2 mil. Hungarians in Romania. The official Census of Romania gives
1.62 mil. Hungarians.
Attachment 12. The case of Mihail Cofariu, the Romanian who
was illtreated in his own country and then expelled.
Attachment 13. A set of 12 photographs demonstrating the Hungarian
atrocities against the Romanians in Transylvania.
Examining the above documents which represent a few proves of
the acts of the Hungarian extremist against the Romanians in Romania, we
are asking you, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the American
Congress, for your consideration. Especially we want to draw your attention
to the excerpts from the book "Nincs Kegyelem", (No mercy), written by
Dücsö Csaba and published in Budapest, Hungary in 1939, a book
which incites the Hungarians to murder the Romanians, as well as to the
text which in 1983 the "Hungarian Freedom Fighters" organization revives
the spirit of Dücsö Csaba, inciting again the Hungarians to murder
the Romanians.
Concluding this letter, we want to emphasize that:
I. During WW I Romania took the arms along with the Allied Powers
against Austro-Hungary, because of overwhelming majority of the Romanians
in Transylvania, 77%, who wanted to be reunited with the Romanian Kingdom.
The victory was sanctioned by the Peace Treaty of Trianon (1920) signed
by USA, Great Britain, France, etc, and also by Hungary. The Human capital
Romania engaged in WW I was about 800.000.
II. During WW II King Michael of Romania made the turning
point of hostilities against the Nazis and Horthysts along with the Allied
Forces. It is evaluated that this turning of the hostilities resulted in
a shortening of the war with at least six months. The human capital Romania
engaged in the war against the Nazis and Horthists was 538.536. The casualties
were 21.031 dead, 90.344 wounded, 58.443 missing, resulting in total losses
of 169.822. The statements made in British Parliament in January 1945 places
Romania as the fourth Allied Army, after Soviet
Union, United States and Great Britain, meanwhile Czechoslovakia and
Poland were occupied lands, while Hungary fought along with the Nazis until
the end of the war.
The Peace Treaty of Paris after WW II was signed in 1947
by USA, Great Britain, France and other countries, including Hungary, and
it sanctioned again the reunion of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom.
Due to the contribution Romania brought to the victory of the Allied Forces
in WW II, King Michael of Romania was officially invited to Normandy in
1995 for the celebration of 50 years of the victory, while during this
year, 1998, for the same reason King Michael was proposed for the Peace
Nobel Price in Oslo-Norway.
All these historical facts shown above demonstrate that
Transykvania undoubtedly belong to Romania and the Romanians cannot afford
to stay crossed hands in face of the hostile Hungarian propaganda.
July 15, 1998
Sincerely, yours
George Duma, Ph.D. Traian Golea
President
President
Rom. American National Congress
Rom. Association of South Florida
1730 3rd Ave., Apt. # 1202
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. # 601
San Diego, CA. 92101, U.S.A.
Hallandale, FL 33009, U.S.A.
To
Minority Rights Group International
379
Brixton Rd.
London
SW9 7DE, England
The desperate case of Ilie Ilascu, the Romanian patriot who was sentenced
to death for political reasons in the so-called Autonomous Dniester Republic,
is known all over the world.
Ilie
Ilascu is being held in prison since July 1992 and his health condition
is steadily deteriorating.
Countless demonstrations took place and countless interventions were made
on his behalf by important institutions and public persons.
To cite just a few:
1.
Many street demonstrations took place in Romania, in front of the Russian
Embassy in Bucharest, demanding freedom for Ilie Ilascu.
2.
In 1993 and 1994, the World Union of Free Romanians, President Mr. Ion
Ratiu, protested vehemently against the death sentence for Ilie Ilascu.
Similar vehement protests came from the World Association Pro Bessarabia
and Bucovina, President Mr. Nicolas Lupan (France), and from the Union
and League Association (USA), represented by Mr. Nicolae Dima.
3. A letter was sent to President Bill Clinton in June 1994, asking
him to intervene on behalf of Ilie Ilascu.
4. In December 1994, The World Association Pro Bessarabia and Bucovina,
President Nicolas Lupan, brought before the European Parliament in Strassbourg
(France) a petition on behalf of Ilie Ilascu. This petition, signed by
over 5,000 personalities, asks that the European Award of Human Rights
be given to this Romanian patriot.
Mr. Nicolas Lupan, a veteran in the struggle for Bessarabia and Bucovina,
those two Romanian provinces which were occupied by the USSR in virtue
of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, has been involved from the very beginning
on behalf of Ilie Ilascu.
5.
In May 1995, Congressman Martin H. Hocke of Ohio presented to Congress
the Ilie Ilascu case, entered in the Congressional Record of May 12, 1995.
6.
In the same month Amnesty International asked that the file of the Political
Detainees of Tiraspol, meaning Ilie Ilascu and his three coprisoners, be
reopened.
7. In August 1995, The Commission on Security and Cooperation in
Europe invited IIie Ilascu officially to visit this Commission and the
US Congress.
Copies
of the letter of invitation were sent to the Secretary of State, to the
US Embassy in Chisinau (Moldova Republic), and to the Embassy of Moldova
in Washington, D.C.
8. In September 1995, The Romanian Church of the Holy Cross in Washington,
D.C. received Ilie Ilascu as an honorary member of that church.
9.
In October 1995, The Romanian Union and League, USA, represented by Mr.
Nicolae Dima, professor at James Madison University, Virginia, initiated
a new campaign on behalf of Ilie Ilascu. Mr. Nicolae Dima is also a veteran
in the struggle for the reunification of the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia
and Bucovina with Romania.
Following this campaign, the Avram Iancu society of New York and the Romanian-American
Foundation of New Jersey invited several Romanian personalities from the
Moldova Republic to visit the USA and plead Ilie Ilascu's case in Washington,
D.C. and in New York.
10.
In November 1995, a letter from the Commission on Security and Cooperation
in Europe was addressed to Petru Luchinski, speaker of Parliament (currently
President of the Moldova Republic) regarding the case of Ilie Ilascu.
11.
In February 1996, another letter was sent to President Bill Clinton regarding
this matter.
12.
In January 1997, a letter was sent to the Secretary of State, Mrs. Madeleine
Albright, on this topic.
Despite
all these interventions, the so-called Autonomous Dniester Republic is
disregarding the whole civilized world bykeeping Ilie Ilascu in prison.
The
case of Ilie Ilascu is not only the case of a man sentenced to death for
his political views; it puts on trial the conscience of the whole world,
and puts to the test the principle of human rights.
This
case also puts to the test the Helsinki Final Act, which establishes a
framework for basic human rights.
In view of the above considerations, we ask you again to intercede on behalf of Ilie Ilascu. You cannot let Ilie Ilascu die in prison.
Along with Ilie Ilascu there are three more Romanian patriots in jail for the same political reasons, sentenced to various prison terms. Their names are: Alexandru Lesco, Tudor Petrov-Popa, and Andrei Ivantoc.
Sincerely, yours
George Duma, Ph.D.
President
Romanian
American National Congress
R.A.N.C.
1730 3rd Ave. - Apt. 1202
San Diego, CA 92101, USA
World Association Pro Bessarabia and Bucovina
Traian Golea
President
Romanian
Association of South Florida
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. #601
Hallandale, FL
To Human Rights Organizations October 1997
During WW II King Michael of Romania made on August 23, 1944 the turning
of the hostilities against Germany with the Allied Forces and it is appreciated
that this turning resulted in a shortening of the war with at least six
months.
While the human capital Romania engaged in the war against German forces
was 538,536, and resulted in 21,031 deads, 90,344 wounded, 58,443 missing,
total losses 169,822, the same day of the turning of the hostilities, the
troops who were along ther battle field on East front were disarmed by
USSR (the new Ally), and taken prisoners.
At the City of Balti (pronounce Baltsi), now Moldova Republic, there were
around 50,000 troops, among them around 40,000 Romanians, 5,000 Germans,
2,000 Hungarians and also 3,000 Czech and Poles.
A very few of these prisoners managed to escape and they made known their
fate only after the dissolution of the USSR, in 1989.
Informations about what happened to these 50,000 prisoners were published
by the weekly newspaper "The Northern Courier" from Balti also after the
dissolution of USSR.
In this way people learned how all 50,000 prisoners were killed by
the KGB (Russian Secret Police) and the Soviet army. They were shot to
death and thrown in the Marsh ditches of the river Raut (pronounce Rauts),
near the City of Balti.
During the years 1991-1992, after the USSR dissolution, searches took place
in these marches, where unaccountable skeletons and bones were found.
Romanian people of the surroundings decided to make a pyramid of these
bones and on the top of it to put a triptych (troita).
The Triptych was sanctified on May 7, 1992 by the Romanian Bishop
Petru of Balti, in the presence of thousands of people, while the Diacon
Nicodim Schiopu proposed to build there a church or a monastery with the
name "The Church of the Bones".
The Bishop Petru nominated as parish priest of this "Church of the Bones"
the Priest Valerian Cernei. But all of a sudden things took a bad turn.
The Bishop Petru of Balti was attacked and beaten by unknown people just
inside the Bishopric Palace, and similar attacks were perpetrated also
at two other monasteries in Balti county.
Due to this situation, at the present time the "Church of the Bones" is
just an architectural project, and its construction can not be realized
because of lack of support by the authorities.
These informations were transmitted from Balti, (Republic of Moldova),
via the Romanian monks from Saint Mount of Athos (Greece) and published
by the Romanian Newspaper "Curierul Românesc" from Bucharest in its
August 1996 issue.
These monstruous holocaust against the Romanian soldiers, killed as shown
above, along with Germans, Hungarians, Czechs and Poles soldiers, cannot
be forgotten.
It is possible that some of these unearthed soldiers be identified according
to different insignia or other signs, especially if one could find out
the military units they belonged to.
If possible, even after 50 years, the families and the descendents of the
disappeared soldiers during this terrible Holocaust have the right to learn
about the real fate of their beloved.
The above mentioned mass killings constitute a ultra brutal crime against
Humanity, a specific case regarding Human Rights violations and also a
ultra grave violation against the Geneva Convention from 1864 regarding
the Régime of Prisoners of War, and just like in Katyn case, searches
must be done and find out the truth.
We want to remind you that in the last years, 50 years after the conclusion
of the war, different countries appologized for their violations of Human
Rights during WW II and agreed to pay compensations.
As a consequence, we submit this case to the Human Rights Organizations
asking them to take the right steps, to make the needed searches in order
to determine the truth about these common graves and why the government
of Moldova did not continue the due researches.
On the other hand we think, there is a moral and humanitarian obligation
for the United Nations and their international organizations to help the
Bishopric of Balti to build the "Church of the Bones"
Sincerely, yours
George Duma, Ph.D. Traian Golea
President
President
Rom. American National Congress
Rom. Association of South Florida
1730 3rd Ave., Apt. # 1202
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. # 601
San Diego, CA. 92101, U.S.A.
Hallandale, FL 33009, U.S.A.
THE ROMANIAN AMERICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
and
THE ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA
July 15, 1998
Dear Sir,
Due to permanent hostile Hungarian propaganda of a small
fraction of the Hungarian Minority of Romania, which is trying to discredit
and destabilize Romania and her way toward democracy, actions which compels
us to reveal a few aspects and documents concerning the relations between
the two nations.
Enclosed you will find, for your information (benefit),
the following:
Attachment
1: A German map, showing the 2 Szeklers Counties in Romania.
" 2: The last Romania's
Census - 1992.
"
3: Excerpts from Dücsö Csaba's Book.
"
4: Dücsö Csaba revived - 1983, in "A perverse and criminal ideal"
- published in "Hungarian Freedom Fighters"' official
publication.
" 5:
Laszlo Tökes
"
6: Mihaila Cofariu
"
7: Oliver Lustig's booklet, showing the Hungarian Holocaust against
the Jews and Romanians.
"
8: A short presentation of the History of Transylvania.
Taking in consideration the attached documents representing
just a few proves of the Hungarian extremist acts against Romanians in
Romania, we are asking for yours arbitration and even intervention, in
order to stop the inter-ethnic conflict.
The Romanian people need peace to recover from the most
repressive communist regime in Europe. Some Hungarian voices went even
so far as to ask for autonomy or independence of these two counties, which
of course is inconceivable, due to the big majority of Romanians i.e. 89%
of total population.
According to "Helsinki Act" signed on August 1, 1975,
and renewed on August 11, 1985, the frontiers of the States in Europe cannot
be changed. We are drawing your special attention to read, please,
the attached excerpts from the book written by Dücsö Csaba and
published in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939, under the title "Nincs Kegyelem",
(No mercy), as well as the excerpts from the instructions published
in 1983 by the Hungarian Freedom Fighters, referring to the same book and
inciting against the Romanian people.
As a conclusion, we want to emphasize as follows:
I. During WW I Romania took the
arms along with the Allied Powers against the Austro-Hungary, because of
overwhelming majority of the Romanians in Transylvania who wanted to be
reunited with the Romanian Kingdom and this was sanctioned by the Peace
Treaty of Trianon (1920), signed by USA, Great Britain, France, etc, and
also by Hungary.
The human capital Romania engaged in
WW I in order to reunite Transylvania, was about 800.000.
II. During WW II King Michael
of Romania made the turning point of hostilities against the Nazis and
Horthysts along with the Allied Forces. It is appreciated that this turning
of the hostilities resulted in a shortening of the war with at least six
months. The human capital Romania engaged in the war against the Nazis
and the Horthysts was 538.536. The casualties were 21.031 dead, 90.344
wounded, 58.443 missing, resulting in total losses of 169.822.
The statements made in British Parliament in January 1945
places Romania as the fourth Allied Army, after Soviet Union, United States
and Great Britain, meanwhile Czechoslovakia and Poland were occupied lands,
while Hungary fought along with the Nazis until the end of the war.
The Peace Treaty of Paris after WW II was signed in 1947
by USA, Great Britain, France and other countries, included Hungary, and
sanctioned again the reunion of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom.
Due to the contribution Romania brought to the victory of the Allied Forces
in WW II, King Michael of Romania was officially invited to Normandy in
1995 for the celebration of 50 years of the victory, while during this
year, 1998, for the same reason King Michael was proposed for the Peace
Nobel Price in Oslo-Norway.
All these historical facts shown above justifies the Romanian
losses during both World Wars and demonstrates that Romania cannot afford
to stay crossed hands looking at the hostile Hungarian propaganda.
Sincerely, yours
George Duma, Ph.D. Traian Golea
President
President
Rom. American National Congress
Rom. Association of South Florida
1730 3rd Ave., Apt. # 1202
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. # 601
San Diego, CA. 92101, U.S.A.
Hallandale, FL 33009, U.S.A.
A SHORT HISTORY OF TRANSYLVANIA
In order to better understand the situation, please allow
us to make just a short consideration about the history of Transylvania
and on the demographic situation of this territory.
1. According to the last Census, 1992, Romania's population
comprises 22.760.449 inhabitants. The Romanians represent 89.4% of the
population and the Hungarians 7.1% (see Attachment). In Transylvania, the
Romanians represent over 77% of the population, and the Hungarians represent
less than 23%.
2. The Romanians have been living in this territory since
pre-history. It is safe to say that Transylvania is the cradle of the Romanian
nation.
3. Transylvania was reunited with the motherland, the Romanian
Kingdom after the colapse of the obsolete Austro-Hungarian Empire (at the
end of the WWI), due to the overwhelming majority of the Romanian population
who voted at the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia on December 1, 1918
to be reunited to the Motherland Romania.
4. The reunion of Transylvania with Motherland Romania, based
on the right of self determination, and was sanctioned by two International
Treaties in 20 Century, i.e. Peace Treaty of Trianon after WWI, in 1920,
and Peace Treaty of Paris after WWII, in 1947. Both treaties were signed
by U.S.A., Great Britain, France, etc.
5. Hungary itself, after the battle of Mohacs (1526), has
totally disapeared as a country from the map of Europe and became partly
a Turkish province (Pashalick), with the capital in Budapest, and the rest
was engulfed in the Austrian Empire.
6. During that period of time, when Hungary was a Turkish
Province (Pashalick), Transylvania had preserved its status of an Autonomous
Principality under Turkish suzerainty.
7. After 1690, when the Turks were defeated by the Austrians,
entire Hungary became part of Austrian Enmpire, while Transylvania continued
to preserve its status of Autonomous Principaly under Austrian suzerainty,
with a Governor nominated by the Emperor of Austria.
8. Only in 1867, that is, after an absence of 341 (three hundred
and forty one) years succeded Hungary to reapear on the map of Europe,
although under the name of Austro=Hungary. (what is, still part of the
Austrian Empire), when Transylvania was forcible annexed to Austro-Hungary
under Hungarian administration.
9. This annexation lasted just 51 years, from 1867 to 1918,
when the Romanian majority in Transylvania voted for the reunion to the
Motherland Romanian Kingdom.
If you are interested in this topic, we could provide
you more details and refer you to many books.
* * *
After the revolution of 1989 and the fall of the communist
regime, the Hungarians in Romania are represented in the Romanian Parliament
by the UDMR (Democratic Union of the Magyars <Hungarians> in Romania),
and are also taking part in the government coalition. But the UDMR (HUDR)
is a ethnic Union, which means, an organization of all and only Hungarians,
and consequently it comprises all possible political orientations, many
of them, even racists. Ever since 1945, when the communists took over Romania,
the Hungarian community of Transylvania, organized in an ethnic Popular
Union of the Hungarians, was part of the communist oppressive regime,the
Hungarians of Transylvanuia delivered 80% of the goiverning communist apparatues
(see "History of the Romanian Communist Party", by Robert King, Hoover
Institute, California, 1979, pag. 38). After the revolution of 1989, the
communist Popular Union of the Hungarians only changed its official name
and
became the "Democratic Union of the Hungarians in Romania" and entered,
with all that heterogenous political orientation, (even a racist wing,
as represented by Bishop Laszlo Tökes, Verestoy Atila, a.o.) the Democratic
Coalition which rules Romania today.
It is the racist wing of the UDMR which is asking for
the autonomy or federalization of Transylvania, and in order to pursue
this goal they are using all possible means, trying to discredit Romania
(please see as an example the Attachment 2 and 3).
George Duma, Ph.D. Traian Golea
President
President
Rom. American National Congress
Rom. Association of South Florida
1730 3rd Ave., Apt. # 1202
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. # 601
San Diego, CA. 92101, U.S.A.
Hallandale, FL 33009, U.S.A.
To the Newspaper "Haagsche Courant"
P.O.Box 16050
2500 AA The Hague,
Netherlands, Europe
Attention Editor J. Schinkolschoek
Dear Mr. J. Schinkelschoek,
Following the article written by Mr. Klinkhamer regarding Romania and published by Haagsche Courant on My 8, 1996, we are strongly protesting against it and are urging you to publish our protest as follows:
I. Regarding Transylvania.
1. Transylvania is the cradle of the Romanian people, where they
were born and living over the centuries. The Romanians represent 89% per
total population of Romania, while the Hungarians represent only 7,1%
Evidence over the Romanian continuity on this territory
is exhaustingly demonstrated by history and archeology.
2. Transylvania was reunited with Romanian Kingdom after the
collapse of the obsolete Austro-Hungarian Empire (End WW I), due to the
overwhelming majority of the Romanians who, using their right to self-determination,
two years before the Peace Conference voted to be reunited with their motherland
Romania.
3. The reunion of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom was
sanctioned - due to above mentioned democratic principle of selfdetermination
- by two international treaties signed in 20th century (i.e. Peace Treaty
of Trianon, 1920, and Peace Treaty of Paris, 1947). Both treaties were
signed by U.S.A. Great Britain and France, etc. and were not a gift of
France as Mr. Klinkhamer falsly and maliciously asserts.
4. After the battle of Mohacs (1526), Hungary totally disappeared
as a country from the map of Europe and became partly a Turkish Province
(Pashalyk), with the capital in Buda-Pest and partly was under Austrian
admninistration.
5. During the Turkisch occupation of Hungary, Transylvania was
a autonomous Principality.
6. After the Turks left the territory of Hungary (1690), this
became part of Austria, while Transylvania became a separately province
ruled by a governor nominated by the Emperor of Austria. During the history,
the governors of Transylvania were eather Saxons or Austrians, but never
Hungarians.
7. When in 1867 Hungary reappears on the map of Europe under
the dualism of Austro-Hungary, after an absence of 341 (three hundred and
forty one) years, Transylvania was forcibly annexed to Hungary against
the will and the protest of Romanian population.
8. This annexation lasted just 51 years, from 1867 to 1918, when
the Romanian majority of Transylvania, using their right to seld-determination
voted for the reunion with motherland Romania.
9. As for the education in Hungarian language in Transylvania
for the Hungarian minority, to cut it short, we are mentioning here only
the declaration made by Congressman Tom Lantos (Hungarian native), who
visited Romania as chief of an American Congressmen Delegation, when he
stated that: "The Hungarians are treated not worse than the Romanians and
their complaints of cultural genocide are not justified. (See please the
book "Pinstripes and Reds" written by former USA Ambassador to Romania
David Funderburk, Selous Foundation, N. Carolina, 1987).
II. Regarding the territories "received by Romania from Austria
and Russia", as Mr. Klinkhamer also falsly and maliciously says:
1. Austria occupied the very old Romanian territory of Bucovina
in 1776 after the Romanian Prince Grigore Ghika III was killed because
of his opposition to this secession.
Following the colapse of Austro-Hungarian Empire after
the conclusion of WW I, Bucovina returned to Romania due to the right
of self-determination of the overwhelming majority of Romanian population
in this territory.
In 1940 North Bucovina was taken by URSS following the
Hitler-Stalin Pakt, known also as Ribbentrop-Molotov Pakt.
2. Russia occupied in 1812 the East territory of Moldova, named
also Bessarabia. Bessarabia is also a historically very old Romanian territory
and the Russian Tsar Peter the Great recognized it as a part of Romanian
territory and as borderline between Russia and Moldova by signing in 1710
the treaty with the Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir.
Despite this treaty and the recognition of the border
line, one hundred years later, in 1812, Russia occupied this territory
in order to open its way to Constantinopol and Bosphorus.
After WW I, in 1918, Bessarabia, due also to the overwhelming
Romanian majority, voted for reunion with Romania.
In 1940, following the Hitler-Stalin Pakt, Russia occupied
again Bessarabia.
At the present time, after the colapse of USSR,
Bessarabia got rid of Russia, declared its independence, the Romanian language
as official language of the country and made several steps toward full
reunion with Romania.
Taking in consideration the shortly above mentioned responses,
we are urging Mr. Klinkhamer to read, study and learn the history and the
realities concerning Romania before he starts again to write on these topics.
We are indignantly and vehemently rejecting his malicious alegations. By
his actually lack of knowledge regarding the history and the realities
about Romania, Mr. Klinkhamer is totaly unqualified to make any remarks
and any comments concerning Romania, much less to express "conclusions".
Mr. Schinkelshoek,
With reference to your country, what would your fellow
countrymen say if somebody would write that Netherlands was part of Spain
and became later independent after the colapse of Spanish power by taking
Spanish territories.
We are urging you, Mr. Schinkelshoek, to publish our protest
on the basis of the right to reply.
Sincerely yours:
George Duma, Ph.D. Traian Golea
President
President
Rom. American National Congress
Rom. Association of South Florida
1730 3rd Ave., Apt. # 1202
901 NE 14th Ave., Apt. # 601
San Diego, CA. 92101, U.S.A.
Hallandale, FL 33009, U.S.A.