RUMANIAN STATE SPONSORED ATROCITIES AGAINST THE CSANGO MINORITY (continued)

January 3, 2002

The Bákó County (judetul Bacau in Rumanian) Education Inspectorate filed lawsuit requesting for the banning of the Association of Csango Hungarians from Moldova for the reason of illegal education activities carried out by the Csango association.  Note that the "illegal education activities" of teaching Csango children in their maternal language is in fact a legal constitutional right expressed in the Constitution of Rumania, paragraph 6 (1) and (2).

January 21, 2002

In Klézse (Cleja in Rumanian), two policemen forced their way without any warrant in the house rented by two woman teachers involved in the extracurricular maternal language teaching of the Csango children.  They harassed the teachers by searching their homes and by notifying them that they have to leave Klézse within twenty-four hours.  After that, they forced their way into the rooms of Mr. Attila Hegyeli and his fiancé, who were living in the same house but not being at home at the time, and searched their rooms as well.  The reason given for the notification was that the teachers did not have a temporary approval in their identification papers for living in Klézse.  (Note that although the constitution of Rumania entitles their citizen to live anywhere in Rumania according to their will, the citizens are required to apply for approvals or temporary approvals for staying permit in a given community).  In fact, the policemen conducting the unlawful house-search must have known well that the teachers had already submitted their request documents quite a while ago to the local chief of police, in order to obtain the necessary approvals.

January 22, 2002

The Bákó County Education Inspectorate continued its investigation into the extracurricular activity involving teaching of the maternal language of Hungarian, in Külsőrekecsin (Fundu Răcăciuni in Rumanian).  Earlier in October, a previous investigation was made in the community of Klézse, which was followed by the ban of Hungarian maternal language education.

January 23, 2002

In a report issued by the non-governmental organizations of APADOR-CH and the Pro Europa League the two organizations are urging the government to put a stop to the forceful assimilation of the Csango people and to recognize them as a national minority population group.

January 31, 2002

The court petition asking for the banning of the Association of Csango Hungarians from Moldova (ACsHM) filed by the Bákó County Education Inspectorate, was supposed to be heard, but it was postponed to February 28, for the reason that the ACsHM was not notified of the upcoming lawsuit.

February 7, 2002

For unknown reason the Police of Hargita County (judetul Harghita in Rumanian) and representatives of the Bákó County Education Authority made "soft" investigation at the families of those teachers who teach Hungarian language for "Csango" children of Klézse.  They asked parents and relatives about which special section these teachers had graduated at, what languages they speak and for what reason they stay in a settlement of Bákó County.

The daughters of the families Bogdán, Mihálydeák and Borsos are amongst those who teach the children of Klézse their maternal language of Hungarian, teaching of which was forbidden recently by the government officials in the Csango villages.  It is to be noted that this teaching was provided free of charge for those Csango children who wanted to learn in their maternal language.  The cost of this was not paid in any way or form by the Rumanian government, which by its own laws is bound to provide this very type of education for the Csangos.