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As municipal elections are approaching
in Ukraine, the radical Ukrainian nationalists of the Transcarpathia
region near the Hungarian border are increasing their attacks on the
ethnic Hungarian minority there, Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reports.
Several Hungarian institutions in Transcarpathia, such as churches,
the Hungarian theater, the teachers' association, a welfare foundation
and the Hungarian Cultural Federation in Transcarpathia (KMKSZ), the
political body of ethnic Hungarians in the Ukraine received threatening
e-mails from a user with the handle "Ukrainianwolf".
In his messages, he warned "Hungarian dogs" to "grab your possessions and go back to your historic family [in Hungary]".
"Ukraine does not need your enclave and community," the e-mails read.
He threatened collective retribution against the Hungarians, saying,
"their nation will be taught respect to the benefit of the Ukrainians".
On and around Aug. 20, Hungary's national day, the life of the
Hungarian community was disrupted by three anonymous phone calls about
bomb threats at a church and in two villages. The bomb threats all
proved to be false.
On Aug. 19-20, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), which is in
charge of counterintelligence and combating terrorism, also held a large
exercise in the region.
As municipal elections are approaching
in Ukraine, the radical Ukrainian nationalists of the Transcarpathia
region near the Hungarian border are increasing their attacks on the
ethnic Hungarian minority there, Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reports.
Several Hungarian institutions in Transcarpathia, such as churches,
the Hungarian theater, the teachers' association, a welfare foundation
and the Hungarian Cultural Federation in Transcarpathia (KMKSZ), the
political body of ethnic Hungarians in the Ukraine received threatening
e-mails from a user with the handle "Ukrainianwolf".
In his messages, he warned "Hungarian dogs" to "grab your possessions and go back to your historic family [in Hungary]".
"Ukraine does not need your enclave and community," the e-mails read.
He threatened collective retribution against the Hungarians, saying,
"their nation will be taught respect to the benefit of the Ukrainians".
On and around Aug. 20, Hungary's national day, the life of the
Hungarian community was disrupted by three anonymous phone calls about
bomb threats at a church and in two villages. The bomb threats all
proved to be false.
On Aug. 19-20, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), which is in
charge of counterintelligence and combating terrorism, also held a large
exercise in the region.
Bomb alert in Beregszász/Berehovo, Ukraine, Ukrainian National Police
In previous years, Hungarian cultural establishments have been hit
with arson attacks, including the Hungarian Cultural Federation in 2018.
In an
editorial,
Marianna Pallagi, editor-in-chief of the local Hungarian news portal
Kárpátalja.ma, wrote the Hungarian community has every right to be in
the Ukraine and that they were not leaving.
"They can send us to our homeland or ancestral land," she wrote.
"Thank you, [but] this is our home. We have been at home here for 1,000
years."
At the end of World War I, Hungary lost the region to then Czechoslovakia. It has a Hungarian minority of around 150,000.
Last October, Hungary
vetoed
a joint NATO statement about Ukraine on the grounds that it did not
mention how the rights of the Hungarian minority in the Ukraine's
Transcarpathia region are being violated.
"Hungary won’t surrender the Transcarpathian Hungarian community to
geopolitics," Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter
Szijjártó said at the time.
Relations between Ukraine and Hungary deteriorated when the Ukrainian
parliament adopted a law called "Ensuring the Functioning of the
Ukrainian Language as the State Language" back in September 2017, which
limited the only recognized state language to Ukrainian.
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