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Statement by the Human Rights Committee of the DCHV, February 7, 1992.

The Hungarian community of Voivodina, other peace-loving citizens, and especially the DCHV membership were shoked and outraged to learn that on February 7, on a public street in the town of Temerin, police arrested Béla Csorba. Mr. Csorba, a member of the DCHV's governing body and President of the organization's Temerin District Chapter, is a noted peace activist and public personality, who serves as responsible editor of Hírmondó (Courier), the newsletter of the DCHV.

Béla Csorba had been forced to go into hiding the past weeks after refusing to comply with a military draft order. Under difficult circumstances and exerting considerable effort, he was nevertheless able to continue carrying out his most important organizational and editorial duties.

His arrest is clearly part of the predetermined military operation by which the Serbian authorities are seeking to destroy the DCHV, by incapacitating the organization's leaders, with the aim of intimidating, breaking and decapitating the considerable political oppositional power represented by the Hungarian community living here. The DCHV - with its resolute peaceseeking positions, long-term perspective and firm commitement to democratic principles - has long been a thorn in the side of the xenophobic tyrants seeking the disintegration of the country.

Aware of our defencelessness - that we are at the mercy of circumstance and that tomorrow new victims are likely to be dragged away from our midst - we protest in the strongest possible terms the shameful political repression of the Hungarian communisty and the arrest and incarceration of those brave peace activists who dared raise their voices against the war.

We demand the release of Béla Csorba! We appeal to all decent, democratic-minded individuals and political organizations to protest the arrest and dragging away of Béla Csorba!