August 30, 2001
On June 2001 a seminal event happened by the arrest of Milosevic, being sent to The Hague in order to be tried for all he had done.
Following this arrest we want to submit to the Commission on Human Rights the atrocious Human Rights abuses committed by the Horthysts in Northern Transylvania, Romania, during the occupation of this territory in WW II and continuing up-to-date by the Horthyst fraction of UDMR (acronym for Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania).
On this occasion we want to underline that the unimaginable horrors which took place in Kosovo in 1999 represent in reality a repetition of the deportations of nearly 500.000 (Five hundred thousands) Romanians from Northern Transylvania following the Vienna Dictate, along with mass killings and other atrocities, destruction of Romanian Orthodox and Greek-Catholic churches, etc., in an all over ethnic cleansing operation.
We already protested these Human Rights abuses and also protested the continuation of those abuses over the decades up to present days.
Now we want to inform you again about the "Forgotten Holocaust against the Romanians".
As Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan declared this Century as "A New Era of Human Rights", we consider absolutely necessary to held the abusers accountable in order to prevent future abuses.
The now-a-day Horthysts can not be held responsible for the past, but those crimes and Human Rights atrocities can not be wiped out of history, and therefor they must recognize them.
But after WW II the Horthyst wing of UDMR continued their criminal atrocities and Human Rights violations in front of our own eyes until now-a-day and they have to be held accountable for these horrible deeds.
While other countries, included the Vatican, assumed responsibility of the past deeds, Hungary and the UDMR never apologized for their crimes to Romania.
Milosevic from Serbia, and others with him, are held today publicly responsible for the violations of Human Rights and they are rightly pursued in order to be punished. Milosevic did a crazy action which stunned the whole civilized world, but his action was just an imitation of similar action done by the Horthysts in Northern Transylvania in 1940-1944, and these two situations are identical .
To let unpunished the to-days Horthysts for what they have done, in a world which Mr. Kofi Annan proclaimed as A New Era of Human Rights, would mean to compromise the very concept of Human Rights, that is, to negate all that Mr Kofi Annan and the Pope John Paul IIare doing for the moral progress of the Humanity.
And further, without being brought to the Commission of Human Rights, Council of Europe, for the crimes and the Human Rights violations recently committed and without asking the Romanian nation for forgiveness, the "New Era of Human Rights" would sound just as empty words.
The Human Rights Principle is one and that is why one cannot have a double standard in its application, therefor one cannot punish Milosevic and let unpunished what his predecessors have done in Romania in 1940-1944 and up to present day.
Consequently, in the name of Human Rights Principle the Horthysts must be made responsible for what they have done.
We underline that the Genocide concept was established as an international crime and it refers to acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group" and the Horthysts' activities are included in this Concept.
After the Serbian government handed over former President Slobodan Milosevic to a United Nations Tribunal for trial on War Crime charges, Senator Joseph Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that "We are witnessing one of the most significant event in postwar European history", and we would add that another significant event would be when the Horthysts also will be brought to The Hague, because there is their place, along with Milosevic.
In to-day Romania the racist wing of UDMR is using all possible means to discredit Romania. They are those chauvinist racists with their criminal activities and numerous Human Rights abuses who are the followers of Dgcs_ Csaba, the author of the book "No Mercy", with his criminal slogan: "I will kill every Romanian crossing my way....." (See please the attached documents)
Further we are mentioning just a very few of their slogans and actions:
- "The Romanians who do not speak Hungarian will not be allowed to settle in the county of Harghita, (Newspaper "Natiunea", 14-29 January 2000).
- The parishioners who do not vote for UDMR must not come anymore to the church", Laszlo T_kes, Bishop and Honorary President of UDMR (Newspaper "Evenimnentul Zilei", June 15, 2000)
- "It's stupid to accept Romanian representatives for the counties of Harghita and Covasna (Marko Bella, President of UDMR).
- The forgery from Odorhei, committed by Jeno Sz;sz, the Mayor of the City, in order to prevent the opening of an orphanage run by the Romanian Greek Catholic nuns, pretending that it damages the ethnic balance of the City.
This forgery was proved by Mr. Philippe Meyre, the lawyer of the "Basel Hilft Company", (See, please, the attached document).
These chauvinist racists attempted also to put a memorial plaque in the city of Dej, Romania, in order to honor Daday Lorand, who under the pseudonym of Dgcs_ Csaba was the real author of the above mentioned book "No Mercy".
- They went so far that they dynamited the antique fortress of Jigodin in their zeal to wipe out the monuments of our ancestors, proving their very long existence on this territory.
As a consequence we are asking that this antique vestiges be put under UNESCO protection.
Prof. Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland, Director of the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, wrote that "On failure to condemn the past, as did Germany and The Czech Republic, the most advanced post-communist countries, on their way to normality, and the absance of morality in politics, one can not build real democracy" - (Lumea Libera, New York, Nr, 571, Sept. 11, 1999).
In conclusion, Hungary must accept responsibility for the crimes and Human Rights violations committed during WW II to apologize for all they have done and to pay damages for the destruction of churches, etc.
The Horthysts from UDMR must also accept responsibility for all the Human Rights violations they have done after WW II up to present time, to apologize and to pay the appropriate damages.
The guilty Horthysts must be also brought to Justice.
Respectfully,
George Duma Ph. D. Traian Golea Aurel S. Marinescu Dr. George Olteanu
President President President of Director
Romanian American Romanian Association Former Political Prisoners Office of the Romanians
National Congress of South Florida of USA and Canada all over the World
San Diego, CA, USA Hallandale, FL, USA New York, N.Y., USA Germany
Attachments:
1. Cover letter and Excerpt from the Book "No mercy" , by Dgcs_ Csaba, published in Budapest, Hungary, 1939, which was used as a military instruction manual for the Hungarian army during the occupation of Transylvania in WW II, (Vienna Dictate, August 30, 1940).
2. Commentary of the book written by Mr. Aurel Marinescu, based on first hand documents, entitled " Before and after Vienna Dictate".
3. Commentary of the book written by Mr. Florian Dudas, entitled "Terror in Maramures" , based on first hand documents and witnesses declarations.
4. "Report of Romanian Parliament Hearing Commission for the Events Occurred in the Counties Harghita and Covasna in the years 1990-1991."
5. "Transylvania , A Romanian Land" , written by George J. de Ferenczy, A Szekler journalist and writer (Romanian Historical Studies, 2000)
6. Different Photos and Documents demonstrating just a very few Human Right abuses done by the Horthysts during WW II, and continued up to the present time.
7 A short history of Transylvania.
8. Analyse du Dossier de l'Orphelinat d'Odorheiu Secuiesc, written by Phillippe MEYRE, Avocat au Barreau de Nantes.
At your request we could provide many other documents.
And as a documentation for the Human Rights organizations in what it concerns the alleged historical rights of the Hungarians over Transylvania, asserting that the Trianon Peace Treaty of 1920 has made an enormous injustice to Hungary, because they conquered in the 10th century a empty land and they owned it for one thousand years, we are saying:
- Transylvania is the birthplace of the Romanian nation, and has been inhabited by the Romanians continuously since prehistoric times.
- About the Romanian continuity in Transylvania, the American historical Paul MacKendrick, in his book "The mute Stones Speak", - The Story of Archaeology in Italy -, 1979, apud Radio Free Europe, RAD Background Report 252, Nov. 21, 1979, says:
"The Roman withdrawal of 271 A.D., ordered by Aurelian, meant evacuating the administration and the landowners. The Dacians stayed on. They were already romanized and the romanization continued to this day. After the Roman army and administration withdrew, the natives continued to speak Latin, which is stile the basis of the Romanian Language."
Antonius Bonfinius, secretary of the Hungary's greatest king, Matheus Corvinus - of Romanian origin - apud "Rumania", by Romulus Seisanu, Bucharest, Imprimeria Nationala, 1939, page 11, says: "The Romanians of Transylvania are the direct descendants of the legionnaires and colonists, who settled down in Dacia, according to emperor Trajan's orders. their language which resembles the Italian, proved it."
The Hungarian historical Huszti Andras, in his book "Z es Uj Dacia, azaz ErdIlinek regi mostani ;llapotj;r;l valo Historia, (Bestben, 1791, pag. 131)m about the Romanian continuity in Roman Dacia, says: "No nation has a language coming so near to the ancient Roman (Latin) language as the Wallachians. This is a certain proof which can't deceive, that they are in Transylvania the descendants of the ancient Roman colonies."
And in 19th century yet another Hungarian historian, Paul Hunfalvy, in his book "Neuere Erscheinungen der rum?nischen Geschichtsschreibung, Vienna, Teschen, 1886, pp 9-10, about the same topic says: "The ancestors of the actual Romanians never ceased , from Trajans' time, to live in old Dacia, i.e. in Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia; consequently, the Romanian inhabitants of these countries are the direct descendants of the colonists established by Trajan in Dacia."
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