No punishment for Ceauşescu's execution

Twenty years ago on December 25 the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife were executed. Only one of the people who participated in their show trial has assumed responsibility, the daily Adevărul writes: "What they did in this trial has disqualified them for life and destroyed the concept of 'justice'. A feared dictator can be condemned by valid accusations and overwhelming evidence, but not by a parody of a Stalinist trial that reduces us to the level of a tribe. … 'He who carries out a coup d'état is capable of killing anyone!', Ceauşescu concluded resignedly at the end of the trial. And he certainly wasn't exaggerating: The group [of perpetrators] … has hundreds of Romanians on its conscience who were shot during the days of the Revolution to keep the drama going. Only one has accepted responsibility for this absurd charade on Christmas Day: judge Gică Popa. He committed suicide in 1991. The others live on in peace to this day."

» full article (external link, Romanian)
More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Crime and Law, » History, » Remembrance culture, » Eastern Europe, » Romania
All available articles from » Grigore Cartianu

» To the complete press review of Tuesday, December 22, 2009