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| WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EVENTS OF JUNE 1990? 19/06/2009 |
| (2009-06-19) |
| Last updated: 2009-06-22 15:19 EET |
The security forces used force to disperse the last demonstrators who had protested for two months in the centre of the city against the communistoid regime that had come to power on the ruins of Ceausescu's dictatorship. The event we are dealing with derives its name from the thousands of miners who invaded Bucharest in the early hours of June the 14th. Acting like police forces, having been grossly manipulated by the then powers that the protesters in the University Square were planning a fascist type action, the miners used violence against students and all those suspected of being “intellectuals”. They then devastated the headquarters of the historical parties, opposition parties and anti-governmental media.
On the 15th of June, they left Bucharest, not before being thanked for their civic spirit by the then president of Romania, the Social Democrat Ion Iliescu. They left in their wake several people dead, hundreds of people wounded, abusive arrests, material damage and the devastating international consequences for the country translated into the halt of financial aid to Romania and its losing the compassion it had gained after the anti-Communist revolution of 1989. After years of investigations, all the charges of genocide, complicity to committing torture and instigation to war pressed against Ion Iliescu, seen as the moral instigator of the miner raids, have eventually been dropped. The prosecutors of the supreme court have decided that some of the deeds he was accused of were no longer subject to prosecution or had not been properly investigated, that others were never committed, while others cannot be included in any criminal category.
Alongside Ion Iliescu, the then heads of the police and security forces have also been cleared of all responsibility. The daily paper Romania Libera puts it in a nutshell: “Nobody holding a leading position in the political structure, the security forces or the secret services has ever been held accountable for what happened during the miner raids of June 1990”. Ion Iliescu believes it is only natural that all charges against him should be dropped. The Association of the Victims of the Miner Raids see the court's decision as an abuse and accuse the prosecutors of acting on political orders. The head of the association, Viorel Ene, says that after exhausting all possibilities of challenging the decision, they will try to appeal it in an international court.
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