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Rightly so, but in line with that, there is no mention of the large indigenous Hungarian minority in Voivodina within Serbia, which is constantly harassed and discriminated against by the Serbs. The international community must be concerned about protecting the rights of all minorities.What is also bothersome and surprising is that there is no overall analysis of minority rights in Central Europe, which is crucial to the peace of the region as well as the whole of Europe. No mention of the rights of one of Europe's largest minorities, the indigenous Hungarian minorities living in Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine. They number more than 4 million.These "minorities" are not immigrants; they never left the towns and villages of their ancestors, who lived there for more than 1,000 years. They became foreigners in their own lands because the borders were redrawn arbitrarily around them by the great powers about 90 years ago, disregarding the principle of self-determination.They are peaceful people. They don't want violence, and they don't want the borders to change; all they want is autonomy in the regions where they live. It is the moral duty of the United Nations, the European Union and the United States to help them achieve this goal." Geza Cseri is former science and technology adviser to the supreme commander of NATO A volt NATO-tanácsadó is aggódik a magyar kisebbségekért A nemzetközi közösségnek a Vajdaságban élő magyar kisebbség jogainak védelmével is törődnie kell; a népcsoportot folyamatosan zaklatás és hátrányos megkülönböztetés éri a szerbek részéről - írta Geza Cseri, a NATO-főparancsnok egykori tanácsadója a The Washington Times című lap szerkesztőségi oldalán közölt nyílt levelében pénteken. Amióta Koszovó kikiáltotta függetlenségét, a sajtóban sok szó esik az ottani szerb kisebbség jogairól. Ez helyénvaló, de nem történik említés a szerbiai, vajdasági nagy magyar kisebbségről - állapította meg a magyar származású levélíró, aki egykor a NATO-főparancsnok tudományos-technikai tanácsadója volt. Nem írnak Európa legnagyobb nemzeti kisebbségi csoportjainak, a Romániában, Szlovákiában és Ukrajnában élő magyaroknak a jogairól sem. Pedig számuk meghaladja a 4 milliót - olvasható a levélben. Geza Cseri aggasztónak és meglepőnek tartja, hogy Közép-Európában még nem készült átfogó elemzés a kisebbségek jogairól, "ez pedig kulcskérdés a térség és egész Európa békéje szempontjából". A szerző hangsúlyozza: a kisebbségi sorban élő magyarok nem bevándorlók, sosem hagyták el őseik falvait és városait, azokban élnek ezer éve. Idegenné váltak szülőföldjükön, amikor a nagyhatalmak csaknem 90 éve önkényesen átrajzolták az országhatárokat, semmibe véve az önrendelkezés elvét. Ezek a kisebbségek békések. Nem kívánnak erőszakot és nem törekednek a határok megváltoztatására. Mindössze autonómiát szeretnének kapni abban a térségben, ahol élnek. "Az ENSZ, az Európai Unió és az Egyesült Államok erkölcsi kötelessége, hogy segítsenek nekik elérni ezt a célt" - zárta a virginiai McLeanből keltezett nyílt levelét Geza Cseri. [< back to News from the Former Yugoslavia] |
Why so many Hungarians across the border?
The American-Hungarian community is increasingly concerned by the recent outbreak of violence in Vojvodina. "Ethnic Cleansing" in action How did this region become part of Yugoslavia? Read "The Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia and Autonomous Region of Vojvodina, and the Need for a More Coherent U.S. Foreign Policy" on The Hungary Page and refer to the following demographic maps comparing Vojvodina in 1910 and 1991. Note the decline seen here in Hungarian population does NOT take into consideration the Balkan conflicts and the significant escalation of atrocities against Hungarians over the last decade:
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Seles (pronounced sell-esh and spelled Szeles Monika) won the European junior championship at the age of ten. Born to a Hungarian family in the former Hungarian province of Vojvodina, she moved to the United States in 1986, and in 1989 turned professional. In 1990 she won her first French Open, and in each of the following two years she won the Australian, United States, and French opens. Seles won the Australian Open in early 1993, but later that year, while resting between sets during a tournament in Hamburg, Germany, she was stabbed by a spectator. The incident caused Seles to withdraw from competition in 1993 and 1994. Seles returned to competition in 1995 and won the initial tournament of her comeback, the Canadian Open. In 1996 she again won the Australian Open. Monica is a fierce competitor and is still going strong into the new millennium including winning the Bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics! See: http://www.angelfire.com/tx/MONICASELES/index2.html or a small bio: http://www.bartleby.com/65/se/SelesMoni.html
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2/29/2008 - As Kosovo gains independence, AHF calls attention to the largest minority in the region: The Hungarians in the former Yugoslavia and within the Carpathian Basin. The recent independence of Kosovo and resulting violence deeply concerns the Federation who calls international attention to the Hungarians of Vojvodina,who lost autonomy by the Serbian totalitarian regime of Milosevic, and those elsewhere in Central Europe. 
Kosovo and European Minorities
Monica
Seles - (b. in the Vajdaság (Vojvodina), the Hungarian region
that was given to Serbia/