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Romanian town attempts to hijack Austro-Hungarian military graveyard


A Romanian town is attempting to hijack a Transylvanian military cemetery where not a single Romanian soldier is buried. The Hungarian community is fighting back, but rows of concrete crosses and a Romanian monument have already been erected on the site.

The council of Dărmănești (Dormánfalva in Hungarian) – a small town with 8,600 inhabitants in Bacău (Bákó in Hungarian) County – recently set up Romanian war graves and a monument in a Hungarian post cemetery in the Úz Valley, on the territory of the neighboring County Hargita/Harghita. According to their plans they will inaugurate the monument and the crosses with a military parade on 17. May 2019. The news caused great indignation in Székelyföld among Székely-Hungarians because the “only” problem with this, that in the cemetery which was founded by Austrians and Hungarians in 1917, not even one Romanian soldier is buried. On the other hand 650 Hungarian, Austrian and German soldiers rest in peace in this cemetery which belongs officially to Csíkszentmárton (Sânmartin in Romanian) a small Székely village with 1200 inhabitants (98% of them Hungarians).

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http://transylvanianow.com/romanian-village-attempts-to-hijack-austro-hungarian-military-graveyard/?fbclid=IwAR2vOHMtM294TCwEchJm7BBx0zz_Jva5u3nch-_5TIwxLjHJ8OHKAgfPiA4