Romania: Romania’s Hungarian minority hold worldwide day of protest calling (...)

March 11, 2013

Romania’s Hungarian minority hold worldwide day of protest calling for autonomy
Mar 11, 2013

Romania’s Hungarian minority hold worldwide day of protest calling for autonomy.
Protests in Romania and in cities around the world were recently organized for regional autonomy for the Secuiesc region, or Székely Land. Much of the population in the area of Transylvania are of Hungarian ethnicity and there has been increased tension recently over the official use of the (...)
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