Kelemen Hunor: state institutions are either weak or complicit

Kelemen Hunor, the president of the Hungarian Democratic Union in Romania (RMDSZ), urges decisive official action regarding the commemoration of Romanian nationalist organizations in Úzvölgy on Sunday in a statement published on the Hungarian party's website and quoted by Krónika.

The president of RMDSZ reacted to the fact that about 200 members and sympathizers of the Romanian nationalist organizations Calea Neamului and Fratia Ortodoxa held a memorial service on Sunday, October 22, at the Úzvölgy military cemetery on Romanian Army Day. According to the Székelyhon.ro report, the participants are an openly anti-Hungarian,

They also put up a banner with the inscription "Hungarians, go back to Mongolia, where you came from".

In response to this, Kelemen Hunor explained: the Romanian authorities and state institutions must act decisively against extremist organizations. He pointed out that "the desecration of the Úzvölgy cemetery and anti-Hungarian hate speech" , "the enemies of freedom, are among us". "They are motivated by hatred, anti-Hungarianism, hatred of other cultures and languages," declared the president of the RMDSZ.

He called it unacceptable that while the Hungarian community is being sent back to Asia and Mongolia, the leaders who play a decisive role in Romanian politics do not condemn what happened.

"The desecration of cemeteries is unacceptable, the falsification of history is unacceptable, the ruling parties and the opposition parties should have protested long ago"

- He told. And according to him, it should have been known a long time ago what kind of punishment the authorities inflicted on the perpetrators.

The RMDSZ president explained in relation to the lack of official accountability: "I can come to two conclusions in relation to this: either that

those state institutions are weak or accomplices in this story. Both have serious consequences."

He added that "it is not too late", Romanian politics and state institutions must react to what happened, because hate speech and extremism cannot be tolerated.

According to Kelemen Hunor, the nationalist organizations organizing the commemoration in Úzvölgy "question the freedom of a community to its own history, its own language, its own culture, its own heroes" . He warned that

worse can only follow, as verbal aggression is often followed by physical aggression.

He underlined: therefore, the Romanian state institutions "cannot show weakness". "If they show weakness, it will ripple through society and become even louder," said Kelemen Hunor.

Mihai Tarnoveanu and his followers organized Sunday's commemoration on the grounds that, in their opinion, "Hungarian political organizations are exerting enormous pressure" on the authorities to remove the new crosses they erected. Before the commemoration, the 151 wooden crosses that were arbitrarily erected on July 8 were coated with wax and wood preservative last week. They were erected in place of the 50 concrete crosses that were removed at the end of June following a court order.

Plaques with the inscription Romanian hero (Erou roman) decorated with the colors of the Romanian flag were mounted on the crosses, the inscription "In memory of the heroes of the Romanian army" was placed on the larger cross, and a Romanian flag was wrapped around the lower part.

MTI

Photo: Székelyhon.ro