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| MEDIA HEADLINES 10/09/2008 |
| (2008-09-10) |
| Last updated: 2008-09-11 15:21 EET |
“Informer priests saved by senators” writes the daily Cotidianul after the Senate Judiciary Committee eliminated priests from the list of people automatically verified by the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives- CNSAS. The daily adds that the former president of Romania, Ion Iliescu- a former communist high ranking official- and the other former members of the communist apparatus, were also spared the enforcement of the CNSAS Law.
Historians specialising in the study of communism in Romania believe the measure is the more absurd as the Securitate- the former political police- was subordinated to the party within the power game inside the system, and the Securitate members simply followed the orders of the communist activists. Anyway, “what was expected eventually happened as Murphy’s rules do apply in Romania” writes the daily Curentul, adding that “the decision of the committee anticipates the vote in the plenum”, therefore “the priests who provided information to the Securitate will no longer be held accountable by anybody regarding their past”.
Quoted by the daily Romania Libera, ethnic Hungarian senator Peter Eckstein Kovacs, who voted against amending this law, considers the measure incorrect and discriminatory, because “80% of the clergy was already verified, so why would the other 20% get away with it?” The same daily Romania Libera writes that the “Senate has nailed the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives” claiming that informers were “only those who ratted people out of their accord”. However the newspaper finds the claim “diabolic” because in such cases “it’s almost impossible to prove intent or ill will”.
All in all, the daily Gardianul concludes, CNSAS is “a dead institution in the run up to the November 30th parliamentary elections” when, theoretically, it should select the candidates. The daily Adevarul writes that “Mona Musca opens the series of informers to face criminal charges”. The former Liberal minister of culture is being prosecuted by the Prosecutor’s Office for false statements. As a former deputy, she said she did not act as political police during the communist regime, but the CNSAS claimed the contrary, and the Court of Appeal in Bucharest validated their vote. In 2006, after repeated denials, Musca admitted to signing an agreement with the former Securitate in 1977. The daily Jurnalul National recalls that Mona Musca was one of the initiators of the lustration draft law which provides for blocking access to public positions for former communist activists, informers and Securitate members.
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