Romania to condemn communist past

More than 500 intellectuals urged Parliament on Saturday to investigate communist-era repression in Romania.

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Saturday, 17.03.2007.

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Romania to condemn communist past

President Traian Basescu, who has said Romania's communist era was "criminal and illegitimate," commissioned the report. It was presented to Parliament in December and implicated journalists, writers and politicians, including former President Ion Iliescu, to have allegedly contributed to the former communist regime.

Communism ended in December 1989 in Romania, but members of the former communist elite still hold top positions in politics, business and the media.

"In Romania the collapse of the communist dictatorship led to over 1,100 deaths and 3,300 people injured," the intellectuals said in the letter. "Among those being investigated and held responsible for this massacre are public and political personalities, some of whom are present in Romania's parliament."

Those who signed the letter included Ion Caramitru, a former Culture Minister who now runs the National Theater and was a key revolutionary.

The letter also called for an investigation into who was responsible for the repression of two workers revolts during the end of late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's rule, and of miners' rampages in 1990 and 1999 in which several people died.

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