{"id":140,"date":"2016-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/?p=140"},"modified":"2016-12-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T05:00:00","slug":"response-to-the-threats-made-by-romanian-ex-president-traian-basescu-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/response-to-the-threats-made-by-romanian-ex-president-traian-basescu-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to the threats made by Romanian ex-president Traian B\u0103\u0219escu on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December the 2nd<\/sup>, 2016, Romanian ex-president Traian B\u0103\u0219escu made the statement (see below) titled The Hungarian Ambassador to Romania should be expelled.<\/em> To this threat NAHC responded with the following open letter.<\/p>\n

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Dear Mr. B\u0103\u0219escu,<\/p>\n

In response to your recent comments on your Facebook Blog to Prime Minister Victor Orb\u00e1n of Hungary. It is important that you are reminded of the following information: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th<\/sup> President of the United States of America, noted that: <\/p>\n

\u201cNo peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 1918 at Gyulafeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r, on the 1st<\/sup> of December, in the eastern portion of the historic Kingdom of Hungary, the opposite of Wilsonian principles was forced upon Hungarian minorities – not by the people but by merely a 1,228 member delegation who made the final unlawful decision to join with Romania. That delegation\u2019s decision created the new Romanian state.<\/p>\n

The new Romanian National Assembly, for everybody’s peace-of-mind, stated the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Complete freedom for all minorities. Minorities were promised the right to use their own language in public education, in the justice system, and according to their proportion, the right to make decision for laws and state legislation.<\/li>\n
  2. Minorities would be endowed with equal rights and freedom within all denominations of the country.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Almost immediately following these statues, Romania refused to live up to its promises and then, as they do now, brutally enforced policies against the Hungarian minority populations.<\/p>\n

    Below are just a few examples of both historic and present-day injustices against Hungarians. These examples should bring to light some of the historic acts of injustice against Hungarian minorities in Romania.<\/p>\n

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    1. The University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely has banned the use of the Hungarian language.<\/li>\n
    2. Ongoing harassment of Hungarian leaders in counties with significant Hungarian minority populations.<\/li>\n
    3. The banning of the use of the Sz\u00e9kely flag, and the Sz\u00e9kely peoples political rights in their struggle for rightful autonomy.<\/li>\n
    4. Ongoing illegal manoeuvres by the state in which Hungarian churches are prohibited from re-acquiring their church properties.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      You once boldly stated that the Hungarians in your country should feel equally happy as their Romanian colleagues and to celebrate the last 26 years of progress since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This is nothing less than the falsification of the real truth.<\/p>\n

      Both Hungary and Romania became part of the NATO and the European Union with the same obligations and liabilities. Sadly, only Hungary continues to protect the rights of minorities living in its territory, granting everybody absolute and fair administration of justice.<\/p>\n

      Until Romania ceases to ignore Wilsonian principles and the agreements at Gyulafeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r, do not expect that either Romanian Hungarians or the Hungarian diplomatic field to celebrate the 1st<\/sup> of December.<\/p>\n

      Sincerely,
      National Alliance of Hungarians in Canada<\/em><\/blockqute><\/p>\n

      The complete post by Mr. B\u0103\u0219escu (translation by NAHC):<\/h2>\n

      Hey, my chum, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, we (Romanians) do not wish to pay you (Hungarians) a visit to Budapest without your consent, as we did it once in the course of the last hundred years. But do not provoke us, because our patience has its own limits. Emboldened by the fact that Donald Trump took notice of Viktor Orb\u00e1n, the servile page, P\u00e9ter Sz\u00edjj\u00e1rt\u00f3, has asked no more, no less of his diplomatic corps, in the spirit of the political panorama fuelled by Hungarian Extremism, than not to participate at the celebration of Romania’s National Day the world over, because, and I quote, \u201ethe Hungarian nation has nothing to celebrate on December 1\u201d. I can come up with a long list of reasons why the Hungarians living in Romania could be at least as proud as Romanians on December 1. But to our greatest satisfaction, in contrast to Hungarians living in Hungary, the Hungarians of Romania have benefited in the last 26 years from a respectable political leadership, on both national and international levels, committed to NATO and UE values, values that in recent years have become elective and irrelevant to Budapest. In the light of this unprecedented insult to Romania, perpetrated by the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, P\u00e9ter Sz\u00edjj\u00e1rt\u00f3, the only fitting solution is the immediate expulsion of the Hungarian Ambassador from Bucharest, and the recalling of the Romanian Ambassador from Budapest. Otherwise, these soldiers of fortune in the Orb\u00e1n government will not realize that Romania, truly, extends to the Tisza (river)*<\/sup>. God save you if we remind ourselves of this**<\/sup>, demagogues of Budapest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

      * In 1919 the Romanian Army invaded Hungary to crush the newly minted soviet-style Republic established briefly in the wake of a lost war, contributing to the subsequent dismemberment of the country. The crumbling communist regime misinformed and misused its hastily formed \u2013 vastly inferior \u2013 forces composed of commissars and bands of disillusioned soldiers returning from the front, and soon has been left with no army. The nation just stood and watched powerlessly, paralyzed. After marching into the Hungarian capital, the High Command of the retreating Romanian Army, emboldened by several ultimatums of the victorious Allies (The Triple Entente), was reluctant to withdraw behind former national borders, declaring arbitrarily a \u201enew border\u201d alongside the course of the Tisza, in the heart of Hungarian territory. Eventually, the Allies have ordered the Romanian Army back.
      ** …and do it again<\/em>, implied.<\/p>\n

      The complete and original post by Mr. B\u0103\u0219escu:<\/h2>\n

      Prietene Viktor Orban, noi nu vrem s\u0103 v\u0103 vizit\u0103m la Budapesta, a\u015fa cum am mai f\u0103cut-o \u00een istoria ultimilor 100 de ani f\u0103r\u0103 voia voastr\u0103. Dar nu ne provoca, pentru c\u0103 avem \u015fi noi limite. \u00cencurajat de faptul c\u0103 Donald Trump l-a b\u0103gat \u00een seam\u0103 pe Viktor Orban, ministrul de externe maghiar, nevolnicul Peter Syijjarto, o panaram\u0103 politic\u0103 n\u0103scut\u0103 sub pulpana extremismului maghiar, a cerut nici mai mult nici mai pu\u0163in dec\u00e2t ca personalul dimplomatic maghiar s\u0103 nu participe nic\u0103ieri la ceremoniile ocazionate de ziua na\u0163ional\u0103 a Rom\u00e2niei pentru c\u0103, citez, \u201epoporul maghiar nu are nimic de s\u0103rb\u0103torit de 1 decembrie\u201c.Pot s\u0103 fac o lung\u0103 list\u0103 cu motivele pentru care maghiarii tr\u0103itori \u00een Rom\u00e2nia ar putea s\u0103 fie cel pu\u0163in la fel de m\u00e2ndri ca rom\u00e2nii cu ocazia zilei de 1 Decembrie. Dar cea mai important\u0103 satisfac\u0163ie poate fi aceea c\u0103, spre deosebire de maghiarii din Ungaria, maghiarii din Rom\u00e2nia au parte, \u00een Rom\u00e2nia ultimilor 26 de ani, de o conducere politic\u0103 respectabil\u0103 la nivel na\u0163ional \u015fi interna\u0163ional, ata\u015fat\u0103 valorilor NATO \u015fi UE, valori care la Budapesta pare c\u0103 au devenit facultative \u015fi nerelevante \u00een momentul ultimii ani. Av\u00e2nd \u00een vedere afrontul f\u0103r\u0103 precedent adus de ministrul de externe maghiar Peter Syijjarto, Rom\u00e2niei, singura solu\u0163ie demn\u0103 este expulzarea imediat\u0103 a ambasadorului Ungariei de la Bucure\u015fti \u015fi rechemarea ambasadorului Rom\u00e2niei de la Budapesta. Altfel ace\u015fti aventurieri din guvernul lui Viktor Orban nu vor \u00een\u0163elege c\u0103 Rom\u00e2nia adev\u0103rat\u0103 este p\u00e2n\u0103 la Tisa. S\u0103 v\u0103 fereasc\u0103 Dumezeu s\u0103 ne amintim de acest lucru, l\u0103tr\u0103i politici budapestani. [huff.ro<\/a>], [adevarul.ro<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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