Watered-down review of Securitate files

A Romanian senate committee has changed the law on reviewing Securitate [the former secret service in communist Romania] files. If the parliament approves there will be no more probes into the past of priests and former members of the nomenklatura who are still active in politics today. The daily Evenimentul Zilei points out: "Lustration was necessary in the past and still is today. The lustration was a naïve concept in a Romania that lacked principles - and still does. Why do we need to know who worked for Securitate? Because they persecuted us for years, they tried to listen in on our thoughts, to influence us. They read our letters, bugged our telephones, disdained our lives. They did all this secretly ... To our faces they were friends; behind our backs they were spies for small or big rewards. They were blackmailers, cowards or simply lacked any principles. ... They slowed down the progress of this country, robbed us, forced us to leave our home to escape them. ... Who will represent 'us', the naïve who believe in justice and truth and that good will triumph over evil."

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