Mystery surrounds Ceausescus' resting place
The Romanian Supreme Court is calling for the Defense Ministry to confirm the last resting place of late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife.
Tuesday, 01.07.2008.
13:20
The Romanian Supreme Court is calling for the Defense Ministry to confirm the last resting place of late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife. According to the court, Ceausescu and his wife were buried at the Gencea cemetery in Bucharest after they were killed in 1989 during the anti-communist revolution. Mystery surrounds Ceausescus' resting place However, the Defense Ministry does not have any official information on where the two are buried. The Ceausescu’s daughter Zoja took the ministry to court in 2005 because, according to the indictment, “she had doubts that her parents were buried at that cemetery.” The case was taken over by her brother Valentin after Zoja died in 2006. The Ceausescu family lawyer Haralampije Vojcila said that an exhumation of the bodies could be called for based on these charges. During the 1989 revolution, the Communist Party was forced out of power in Romania, and its leaders, the Ceausescus, were sentenced to death and killed. It was the only violent overthrow of a communist regime in Eastern Europe. Nicolae Ceaucescu's last resting place? (Katarina Marusic, archive)
Mystery surrounds Ceausescus' resting place
However, the Defense Ministry does not have any official information on where the two are buried.The Ceausescu’s daughter Zoja took the ministry to court in 2005 because, according to the indictment, “she had doubts that her parents were buried at that cemetery.”
The case was taken over by her brother Valentin after Zoja died in 2006.
The Ceausescu family lawyer Haralampije Vojcila said that an exhumation of the bodies could be called for based on these charges.
During the 1989 revolution, the Communist Party was forced out of power in Romania, and its leaders, the Ceausescus, were sentenced to death and killed. It was the only violent overthrow of a communist regime in Eastern Europe.
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