German. and other ethnic minorities have been subjected to a campaign of forced assimilation. including severe restrictions on the use of their own languages in education and in other cultural expressions. As a result of these unconscionable human rights violations. literally thousands of ethnic Hungarians have fled their homes in Romanias region of Transylvaniahomes where they and their ancestors have lived for a thousand years and more. Most of these ethnic Hungarians have fled to Hungary and thousands of them are living In temporary refugee facilities. During the recent historic visit of President Bush to Hungary. Mrs. Barbara Bush called attention to the plight of these tragic refugees by visiting a group of them in one of their camps. Mr. Speaker. I would like to inform my colleagues of an effort by Hungarian refugees from Transylvania to call the attention of the world to their plight. On the occasion of the bicentennial of the French Revolution and of the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen a group of Hungarian refugees will walk from Budapest to Padsa distance of hundreds of miles. They are making this trek in the spirit of the motto of the 1703 Hungarian Walk of Independence: "Cum Deo pro patria et libertate"-"With God for country and liberty.. These Hungarian refugees from Transylvanialed by Okos Marton and Fuhos Gaborare seeking through this dramatic. but peaceful means to call attention to the forced assimilation of the minorities in Transylvania. and the oppression of the people of Romania by their Government. Mr. Speaker.
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