transylvanianow.com - 27.06.2019 | István Fekete

Angry Romanians break into the cemetery

RMDSZ Senator Barna Tánczos has announced on June 5, that Hungarians will protest against the inauguration of the illegally erected parcel by forming a human chain one hour ahead of the ceremony announced by the Dărmănești Mayor’s Office. On June 6, 2019, at 4.00 p.m. several hundred Hungarians meet and walk toward the graveyard and form a human chain. Politicians, civilians, men, and women are there, and peacefully try to stop the ceremony.

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transylvanianow.com - 26.06.2019 | Dénes Albert

The Hungarian and Romanian defense ministries begin talks today in Bucharest on settling the issue military graveyards on one another’s territories, particularly the Úz valley cemetery where an illegally erected war memorial of Romanian heroes was forcefully inaugurated on June 6, Hungarian news agency MTI reports.

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transylvanianow.com - 26.06.2019 | István Fekete

Inauguration postponed, border dispute remains

On May 12, 2019, thousands have gathered and prayed for the Úz Valley graveyard during the ecumenical worship organized on the site. “What’s interesting, though, is that on May 12, when the Harghita County Council organized the ecumenical worship in the Úz Valley cemetery, it was required by law to notify the gendarmerie in time about the event. However, at that time, the Harghita County Gendarmerie said that it wasn’t competent in this matter, but the Bacău County Gendarmerie is. So we notified them as well. However, after the scandal in the Úz Valley, the Harghita County Gendarmerie again became competent on the matter and fined me for failing to notify them in time about the demonstration,” Csaba Borboly told Transylvania Now

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transylvanianow.com - 25.06.2019 | István Fekete

Dărmănești hijacks the land administered by Csíkszentmárton

On January 29, 2019, Csíkszentmárton’s Mayor notifies the Harghita County prefect about the actions Dărmănești is preparing; that is, to attach the Úz Valley settlement to the city of Dărmănești, an action they consider illegal, as that settlement was part of Csíkszentmárton. Although there are no visible signs of progress in the “rehabilitation works” on March 29, 2019, the Dărmănești local council makes a major move: it changes the status of the Úz Valley cemetery from private domain to public domain.

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transylvanianow.com - 24.06.2019 | István Fekete

ONCE delegation visits the Úz Valley graveyard

“I first heard about ONCE in 2015 when they asked for data about the military cemeteries administered by us, and they also reached out to other local authorities in other counties in this matter. They also reminded us that we need to administer these cemeteries and draw our attention to a celebration day, October 25, the Romanian Armed Forces Day, [Defence Minister’s Order from Oct. 10, 2005]. My answer was, that I firmly believe the graveyard is maintained and in good condition; we do our best to maintain its condition,” Gergely told Transylvania Now. Later that year, a delegation arrived in Csíkszentmárton and visited the two military graveyards administered by this local authority, including the Úz Valley site

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transylvanianow.com - 24.06.2019 | István Fekete

Romania is no stranger to interethnic conflicts: just consider the March 1990 events between Hungarians and Romanians that led to the deaths of five people (two Romanians and three Hungarians), and close to 300 injured people. Following a series of events backed by documents of questionable legality, orchestrated by the city mayor of Dărmănești and the people backing him, on June 6 the military graveyard in Úz Valley became the scene of the most serious inter-ethnic conflict of the past decade.

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transylvanianow.com - 19.06.2019 | István Fekete

The rain couldn’t stop several hundred participants attending a peaceful demonstration against what has happened to the graveyard in the Úz Valley, organized by the Hungarian People’s Party of Transylvania (Erdélyi Magyar Néppárt or EMNP) in downtown Csíkszereda/Miercurea Ciuc.

Hungary Today – Ábrahám Vass | 19.06.2019.

In yesterday’s demonstration held in Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc), organiser Hungarian People’s Party of Transylvania (EMNP) demanded “the immediate suspension of the nationalization of the Úzvölgye (Valea Uzului) military cemetery,” “its restoration,” and the “resignation of Hargita (Harghita) County’s prefect.”

transylvanianow.com - 13.06.2019 | István Fekete

Vice-president of the Kovászna/Covasna County Council Róbert Grüman has been fined 3,000 RON (~€635) by the Hargita/Harghita County gendarmerie on the grounds that the peaceful demonstration of the Szeklers in front of the Úz Valley cemetery wasn’t announced 48 hours in advance, as specified by law.

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transylvanianow.com - 13.06.2019 | Dénes Albert

The Romanian Defense Ministry invited on Wednesday its Hungarian counterpart to discuss the issue of military graveyards in general and that of the Úz valley one in particular, Romanian new agency Agerpres reports.

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MTI-Hungary Today | 13.06.2019.

Romania should punish those “truly responsible” for the violent incident in the Úzvölgye (Valea Uzului) memorial cemetery instead of penalising peaceful commemorators, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Thursday.

Hungary expects Romania to conduct a “fair review” of last Thursday’s clash in the cemetery in eastern Romania, he said.

transylvanianow.com - 11.06.2019 | Dénes Albert

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szíjjártó spoke over the phone on Monday with his Romanian counterpart, Teodor Meleșcanu, in an attempt to solve the diplomatic dispute over an Austro-Hungarian military graveyard in Transylvania, vandalized last week by Romanian nationalists.

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MTI-Hungary Today | 11. 06. 2019.

The Hungarian government expects Romania’s authorities to restore the Úzvölgye (Valea Uzului) military cemetery “to its original state”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in parliament on Tuesday.

In agreement with Romania’s ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party, the government considers restoration of the shrine “the only acceptable decision”, Szijjártó said.

transylvanianow.com - 07.06.2019 | Dénes Albert

An infamous colonel was in charge of the Gendarmerie forces (see footnote) at the site of the attack of Romanian nationalists against the Úz valley Austro-Hungarian military graveyard, Romanian press reports.

Colonel Sebastian Cucoș was the commander of the Gendarmerie at the time when last August the force brutally dispersed an anti-government demonstration during which dozens of protesters have been severely injured.

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fuen.org | Press releases | 07.06.2019

Hundreds of Romanians broke into a graveyard of Hungarian war heroes in Úz Valley (Valea Uzului in Romanian), a Transylvanian village on 6 June 2019 to lay wreaths at the illegally erected stone crosses of Romanian war heroes purportedly laying in the World War I Hungarian-Austrian military graveyard. The violent crowd broke through the police cordon and the live chain formed by a peaceful gathering of the members of the Hungarian community trying to protect the graveyard. They tore down the gate and broke into the cemetery to hold a commemoration, all while vandalizing several of the Hungarian graves, making provocative chants and throwing stones at the Hungarians present.

The source of information is AGERPRES | 7 June 2019

Chairman of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor said on Friday that he will take all the legal steps with international bodies from the European Union to all of Romania's partners in connection with the incidents at the Valea Uzului military cemetery, adding that UDMR representatives will document their complaint with pictures and video recordings so that the world may see "how a majority behaves with a minority at a very sensitive moment."

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The source of information is AGERPRES | 7 June 2019

The Romanian Ambassador in Budapest has not refused reporting to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, but suggested that the meeting be held on Monday, according to Romania's Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE).

"With regard to the invitation of the Romanian ambassador in Budapest at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, we would like to inform that the meeting was not rejected by the Romanian side, which suggested that it take place on Monday," according to MAE.

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transylvanianow.com - 07.06.2019 | Dénes Albert

“An angry, Romanian crowd broke into a WWI-era Austro-Hungarian military cemetery on Thursday, surging past a picket of praying, ethnic Hungarians and, despite a massive police presence, began laying wreaths at the illegally erected stone crosses of purported Romanian war heroes.” This troubling event yesterday was the most poignant news item to come from Transylvania in some time.

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MTI-Hungary Today | 06.06. 2019.

Zsolt Semjén, Hungary’s deputy prime minister in charge of Hungarian communities abroad, church policy and national and ethnic minorities, visited the Úzvölgye (Valea Uzului) military cemetery in Romania’s Harghita County on Wednesday.

hungarytoday.hu – Péter Cseresnyés | 2019.06.07.

Angry Romanian nationalists broke into a Hungarian WW1 memorial site in Úzvölgye, Romania. First, they were battling the Romanian Gendarmerie, then started abusing the peacefully protesting ethnic Hungarians with flagpoles. Later they broke through the cemetery gate to the stone cross monument and the site. The Hungarian government has submitted a letter of protest, and the Romanian ambassador to Hungary was summoned for a meeting in the foreign ministry, which the Ambassador refused. Instead, the Romanian Foreign Minister asked his Hungarian counterpart to send a “clear message to the Hungarian community to avoid confrontation and escalation of tensions.”