Hungarian Deputy PM paid tribute to victims of the 1990 Marosvásárhely ethnic clashes
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Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén on Saturday paid tribute to the victims of the 1990 ethnic clashes in Targu Mures (Marosvásárhely), in central Romania.
In a letter read out at the inauguration of a monument honouring the victims of the clashes in Sangeorgiu de Mures (Marosszentgyörgy), Semjén said it was thanks to the people of the central Romanian village that a bigger tragedy had been averted.
“They were able to help limit the destruction, but instead of thanking them, the authorities at the time retaliated against them, even jailing six people,” the deputy PM in charge of Hungarian communities abroad, church policy and national and ethnic minorities wrote.
Three of the anti-Hungarian pogrom’s six local victims were ethnic Hungarians and three of them Roma, Semjén wrote, adding that three were Catholic and three Calvinist.