Ceauşescus' fans welcome exhumation

Almost 21 years after the end of the communist regime in Romania the alleged remains of ex-dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena were exhumed on Wednesday at Bucharest's military cemetery for the purpose of establishing their identity. The left-liberal daily La Repubblica fears that the dictators' supporters will take action: "The goal of the several attempts to exhume the bodies of the Ceauşescus, shot to pieces by an execution squad so young it barely knew how to use weapons, seems to be to establish their identity once and for all. This already controversial procedure will perhaps serve as an opportunity for some of their eternal supporters (who never showed their faces the days of the revolution in Bucharest and Timişoara) to demand a church funeral service and an honourable burial in a mausoleum built specially for them, in accordance with the will of their late son Nicu."

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