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The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş (also called ''Black March'')〔Ildikó Lipcsey, Sabin Gherman, Adrian Severin, (Romania and Transylvania in the 20th Century ), Corvinus Pub., 2006, p. 193〕 refer to violent incidents between the Romanian and Hungarian ethnic groups in Transylvania, Romania in the early nineties. These clashes were the bloodiest inter-ethnic incidents of the post-communist era in Transylvania.〔 Târgu Mureş (Hungarian: ''Marosvásárhely'') is a Romanian town, with an ethnically mixed population that was almost equally distributed between Romanians and Hungarians after the fall of the communist regime in December 1989. It has been an important cultural and political center for the Hungarian minority in Transylvania.〔Guntram Henrik Herb,David H. Kaplan (editors): ''Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale'', Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999 ()〕 In March 1990, short-lived, but violent clashes occurred there between the two ethnic groups in the town, involving ethnic Romanians from neighboring villages. These clashes left six people dead and three hundred injured.〔 The riots were broadcast nationally on Romanian television, and were covered by media around the world. It is still widely disputed what exactly triggered the riots. The nature of the involvement of the media and the Romanian government are also questioned. ==The Events== In the first days of March 1990, two episodes involving Romanian statues occurred. Graffiti was found on the statue of the Romanian historical figure Avram Iancu, and a statue of another Romanian personality in a neighboring town was stolen. After this, a Romanian newspaper referred to events of the same kind that took place before the 1940 Romanian-Hungarian conflict. During the celebrations of the Hungarian community occasioned by the national day of the Hungarian state (15th of March) accusations of nationalism and separatism began to be heard from the Romanian side.〔Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, (Myth, Identity, and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Serbian Textbooks ), Lexington Books, 2011, ISBN 9780739148679〕 The next day, groups of heavily intoxicated Romanians began to attack the local stores owed by ethnic Hungarians.〔 Students sang anti-Hungarian songs and pillaged a Hungarian Protestant church.〔 On 20 March, Romanian villagers despatched by coach and train arrived to the city and violently attacked the headquarters of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania.〔 The local Hungarian citizens tried to defend their interest but this act also fell into violence.〔 The involvement of the Romanian Government in connection with the stimulation of ethnic violence is not completely unfounded (Andreescu 2001, Gallagher, 2005).〔 The media enlarged the tensions and contributed by its inflammatory discourse to the worsening of the situation.〔 The parliamentary report about the events confirmed that the media reported falsely about the heavy influx of Hungarian citizens to help their co-nationals in their fight for a separate Transylvania.〔 Incitements about "''separatist''" trends were used in an effort to manufacture ethnic conflict.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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