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| A TEMPORARY SOLUTION TO EXPOSE THE SECURITATE 07/02/2008 |
| (2008-02-07) |
| Last updated: 2008-02-08 13:56 EET |
The Romanian government on Wednesday adopted an emergency ordinance enabling the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives to continue its research, albeit temporarily, into the former political police under the communist regime, though with limited prerogatives. The ordinance is an answer to the Constitutional Court’s decision to outlaw the Council, on grounds of unconstitutionality.
Civil society and some of the political parties had an immediate reaction and even began to talk about the reinstatement of the communist power. According to the ordinance, the Council will no longer be entitled to issue verdicts on politicians’ collaboration with the Securitate, on elected figures, or on candidates for public positions; however, the Council will continue to give citizens access to files from the former political police.
Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said that 18 years after the fall of the communist regime, exposing the crimes perpetrated by communism should not be stopped. The ordinance eliminated the term: ”The Securitate as a political police.” With details, here is State Advisor Marius Oprea.
“ I think the recently issued ordinance is a positive development, as firstly the term ‘political police’ disappears, and secondly we can preserve what has been positive in the Council’s activity so far. What has disappeared though is the filtering activity the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives managed to impose through its verdicts, that dominated public opinion in Romania. Political police was the Securitate’s eventual aim. Now the Constitutional Court enabled us to legislate this reality, and this will facilitate the Council’s activity regarding the exposing of the Securitate and its informers. As for the latter, a clear-cut distinction is being made regarding those informer activities that prejudiced human rights and freedoms, as there were informers who in their informative notes offered strictly technical details on a series of activities that could not prejudice the communist regime but the Romanian state itself, and it is here that the distinction needs to be made.”
(Andreea Bojoi)
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