Re: CoE Committee of Ministers on Csango minority culture in Romania
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Subject: Re: CoE Committee of Ministers on Csango minority culture in Romania
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Original sender: Emese Csiki <[email protected]>
Re: CoE Committee of Ministers on Csango minority culture in
Romania
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>From the moderator: It seems that the titles of Mr Neville and Mrs
Isohookana-Asunmaa are not completely correct, but we leave the whole
text in its original form.
Boris
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To:
Mr. Ion Iliescu, President
Mr. Adrian Nastase, Prime Minister
Mrs.Ecaterina Andronescu, Minister of Education and Research
In attention of:
Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne
Mr. Alvaro Gil-Robles, Commissioner of the Human Rights of the Council
of Europe
Mr. Mark Neville, Secretary of the Commission for Minorities of the
Council of Europe
Mrs. Tytti Isohookana-Asunmaa, Commission for Minorities of the
Council of Europe
Since 1996, parents in Cleja and other villages in the Bacau county,
as well as the Association of the Hungarian Csangos from Moldova have
made countless applications for obtaining the education in Hungarian,
their mother tongue. None of them had any effect. Memoranda, reports
on this issue were submited to both the Ministery of Education and
Research and the Department for the Protection of Minorities.
In September 2000, an inter-ministerial committee stipulated that a
study group in the Hungarian mother tongue be organised in Cleja and
Pustiana. This issue had no follow-up until nowadays either, thereby
the Bacau county state schools, and, consequently, the Ministery of
Education and Research itself, acting seriously illegally, since at
least 6 children in Cleja, 4 in Pustiana, and 2 in Lespezi are
deprived of their bylaw-statutory rights. Parents and even children
who request for education in their Hungarian mother tongue are under
unconceivable pressure, often originated by their very teachers, the
fact that they are sent to Hungary, or even to Asia, being the
lightest insult.
I strongly protest against these serious violations of human rights
and I am deeply disappointed in front of such a level of disrespect of
the romanian legislation.
Most recently, children gather privately in residences and learn their
Hungarian mother tongue after classes, and their parents are harassed
as well. We protest against the harassment of Mrs. Istoc Angela and of
Mrs. Hoborici Roza, both from Cleja, who on November 14th, 2001, were
summoned at the village Mayor in front of the deputy superintendent of
the Bacau county state schools and threatened with fines, and
investigations, for the mere fact of hosting children to learn their
Hungarian mother tongue. Is this really the way Romania obeys
Recommendation 1521/23.05.2001 of the Parliament's Aseembly of the
European Union with respect to preserving the cultural traditions of
the Csango minority?
Precisely the day the Bako county State School Inspectorship
investigated what children do in their spare time, the Committee of
the Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted in their turn a
Decision that precisely demands the provision of the education in the
mother tongue. I hope that you will take action on these blatantly
obvious tresspasses against the human rights in Romania.
Yours sincerely,
Emese Csiki
Cs�ki Foundation
Mrs. Emese Cs�ki, Executive Director
4100 Miercurea-Ciuc, Road Petofi Sandor No. 5,
Harghita county, Romania
Tel/Fax: +40 66 114 377
Mobile: +40 93 828 005
E-mail: [email protected]
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