National political expert György Csóti and lawyer Dr. István Varga, in their open letter to the UN's minority protection forums with around 900 signatures, ask them to use all the means at their disposal to protect the indigenous national communities living as minorities in Ukraine, and to stop them against the Transcarpathian Hungarians for many years. ongoing merciless and multifaceted campaign, which is already beginning to exhaust the concept of bloodless genocide.
"The undersigned Hungarian intellectuals, public figures and ordinary citizens, we respectfully appeal to the UN Human Rights Council to use all available means to protect the indigenous national communities living as a minority in Ukraine, and to stop the merciless and multifaceted campaign against the Transcarpathian Hungarians that has been going on for many years , which is already beginning to exhaust the concept of bloodless genocide.
The undersigned Hungarian intellectuals, public figures and ordinary citizens, respectfully request the UN Human Rights Council to use all available means to protect the indigenous national communities living as minorities in Ukraine, to stop the merciless and multifaceted campaign against the Transcarpathian Hungarians that has been going on for many years, which is already beginning to exhaust the concept of bloodless genocide. The denial of the right to use the mother tongue, the prohibition of the open declaration of national identity, court proceedings based on trumped-up charges, open physical violence, and the serial discrimination experienced in everyday life force native national minorities to emigrate or assimilate. The Hungarian government used to use the full range of diplomatic tools, but since the beginning of the Russian aggression, it has been restraining itself, which gives the Ukrainian chauvinist forces a bloodbath.
Human rights include the collective rights of indigenous national communities. Ensuring these rights, if necessary with international influence, would enable the Hungarian people who have lived in Transcarpathia for more than a thousand years to live a full life as Hungarians in their homeland, and thus to be useful citizens of Ukraine. On the one hand, this is a subject right for them, because their ancestors built villages, cities, and cultural institutions in their place of residence and defended their homeland against foreign invaders with their blood. On the other hand, international law would also provide them with the rights to keep their national identity, but Kyiv does not comply with the relevant clauses of the international treaties it signed earlier.
We strongly ask the UN Human Rights Council to use all possible means to save the 150,000 Hungarians living in Ukraine."
Cover photo: MTI/János Nemes
