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Article: Horror averted in Transylvania
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 18, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The same intercommunal resentments fanned into the horrors of
ethnic cleansing by demagogues in Bosnia percolate in other parts of
the dissolved communist world. Nowhere has the danger of ethnic
warfare been greater than in Transylvania, the area of western
Romania that is home to most of the 1.6 million Hungarians living in
that country. So the signing of a friendship treaty Monday between
Hungary and Romania signifies not only a triumph of statecraft for
the governments in Budapest and Bucharest but also is an example of
the preemptive diplomacy that Western states can and should practice
in Central Europe.
Like the other states liberated from the Soviet empire, Hungary
and Romania ...