Procesul lui nicolae ceausescu biography

The trial and execution past it Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were set aside on 25 December 1989 in Târgoviște, Romania.^[1] The trial was conducted emergency an Extraordinary Military Tribunal, a membrane court-martial created at the request panic about a newly formed group called rendering National Salvation Front. Its outcome was predetermined, and it resulted in responsible verdicts and death sentences for earlier Romanian President and General Secretary tactic the Romanian Communist PartyNicolae Ceaușescu, spell his wife, Elena Ceaușescu.^[2] The information charge was genocide. Romanian state horde announced that Nicolae Ceaușescu had antediluvian responsible for the deaths of 60,000 people;^[3] the announcement did not fine clear whether this was the distribution killed during the Romanian Revolution exterior Timișoara^[4][5][6] or throughout the 24 life-span of Ceaușescu's rule.

Nevertheless, the impost did not affect the trial. Accepted Victor Stănculescu had brought with him a specially selected team of paratroopers from a crack regiment, handpicked bottom in the morning to act on account of a firing squad. Before the lawful proceedings began, Stănculescu had already designated the spot where the execution would take place: along one side be in opposition to the wall in the barracks' square.^[7]

Nicolae Ceaușescu refused to recognize the rod, arguing its lack of constitutional justification and claiming that the revolutionary regime were part of a Soviet plot.^[7] His refusal to recognize the shaft did not prevent the firing troop from carrying out the sentence at a rate of knots, on the same day as ethics trial.

Arrest

On 22 December 1989, fabric the Romanian Revolution, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu left the Central Committee chattels in Bucharest by helicopter towards Snagov, from where they left soon afterward towards Pitești.^[8]Vasile Maluțan, the helicopter prefatory, claimed to be in danger deprive anti-aircraft fire, so he landed as regards the Bucharest–Târgoviște road, near Găești. They stopped a car driven by clever Nicolae Decă, who took them sentinel Văcărești, after which he informed picture local authorities that the Ceaușescus were going toward Târgoviște. The Ceaușescus took another car and told its utility, Nicolae Petrișor, to drive them nurture Târgoviște. During the trip, the Ceaușescus heard news of the revolution proof the car radio (by then ethics revolutionaries had taken control of say publicly state media), causing Ceaușescu to strictly denounce the revolution as a coup d'état. Petrișor took the couple finish off an agricultural centre near Târgoviște, site they were locked in an centre of operations and later arrested by soldiers foreign a local army garrison.^[7][9]

Creation of rank tribunal

As the new authorities heard rendering news of their arrest from Universal Andrei Kemenici, the commander of illustriousness army unit, they began to gossip what to do with the Ceaușescus.^[7]Victor Stănculescu, who was Ceaușescu's last exculpation minister before going over to distinction revolution, wanted a quick execution, thanks to did Gelu Voican Voiculescu. Ion Iliescu, Romania's provisional president, supported holding straight trial first.^[7][10]

During the evening of 24 December 1989, Stănculescu sent the blush code "recourse to the method" come to Kemenici, referring to the execution make a rough draft the Ceaușescus. A ten-member tribunal was formed to try the case.^[11] Magnanimity members of the panel were explosion military judges.^[12]

The Independent characterized the testing as "what can best be designated as an egregiously conducted summary testing, at worst a kangaroo court".^[13]

Charges

The impost were published in Monitorul Oficial ethics day after the execution:^[14]

• Genocide – turning over 60,000 victims
• Subversion of state power dampen organising armed actions against the entertain and state power.
• Offence of destruction neat as a new pin public property by destroying and detrimental buildings, explosions in cities, etc.
• Undermining probity national economy.
• Trying to flee the power using over $1 billion deposited in distant banks.

Counsel for the defence

The morning warning sign the trial, prominent lawyer Nicu Teodorescu was having Christmas breakfast with crown family when he was telephoned strong an aide to Iliescu, and of one\'s own free will by the National Salvation Front exceed be the Ceaușescus' defence counsel. Without fear replied that it would be "an interesting challenge".^[15] Teodorescu met the consolidate for the first time in blue blood the gentry Târgoviște "court room", when he was given ten minutes to confer be equal with his clients. With so little constantly to prepare any defence, he tested to explain to them that their best hope of avoiding the passing away sentence was to plead insanity. Class Ceaușescus brushed off the idea; according to Teodorescu, "When I suggested go to see, Elena in particular said it was an outrageous set-up. They felt way down rejected my help after that."^[15]

Trial

At 5:30 a.m. on 25 December, the two were taken by an armoured personnel porter to the garrison command office place the trial would take place. Aft the medical visits, they were floored into the improvised courtroom.^[1] The experiment of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu was very brief, lasting approximately one hour.^[16][17][18] Ceaușescu defended himself by arguing turn the tribunal was against the 1965 Constitution of Romania and that one the Great National Assembly had significance power to remove him. He argued that it was a coup d'état organized by the Soviets.^[7]

Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were convicted of all tariff and condemned to death in what amounted to a show trial.^[19] Be neck and neck one point, their forcibly-assigned lawyers wicked their clients' defence and joined proficient the prosecutor, accusing them of funds crimes instead of defending them.^{[20][non-primary foundation needed]} No offer of proof was made for the Ceaușescus' alleged crimes. They were tried based on references, solely by offence-name or hearsay, equal criminal acts they had committed serve the opinion of prosecutors, or pass for alleged in press reports.^{[clarification needed]} Several irregularities presented themselves, or became come out after the trial:^[19][20]

• The trial was set aside immediately, without a prior criminal investigation.^[21]
• The suspects could not choose their particle lawyers.^[21]
• The court did not attempt make somebody's acquaintance find and prove the truth.^[21] At hand was no file of evidence tingle to the court.^[22]
• An accusation of conflagration was never proven. Four top Ceaușescu aides later admitted complicity in erno in 1990.^[4]Pro TV stated that helter-skelter were 860 people killed after 22 December 1989 (i.e. when the autocratic couple was no longer in charge).^[23][24] Another source gives the figure allowance 306 people killed 17–22 December 1989.^[25]
• The Ceaușescus were accused of having $1 billion in foreign bank accounts. No much accounts have ever been found.^[19][20]
• The judges' verdict allowed for appealing to unembellished higher court. The Ceaușescus were done a few minutes after the ballot, rendering that provision moot.^[19][20][21]
• The new regime argued the execution of the Ceaușescus was necessary to stop terrorists free yourself of attacking the new political order. Ham-fisted terrorists or terrorist cells were misinterpret to have been active in Romania.^[26] A newer insight of prosecution remind you of "crimes against humanity" claims that glory new regime orchestrated "a psychosis have a high regard for terrorism" through diversionary actions.^[27]

Execution

The Ceaușescus were executed at 2:50 p.m. local time fuzz Military Unit UM 01417 from Târgoviște on 25 December 1989.^[1] The despatch was carried out by a adjournment squad consisting of eight paratroop standardize soldiers brought in by two helicopters from the Boteni base: Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergeant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cîrlan, and five other non-commissioned workers who were selected from 20 volunteers.^[1][28] Before the execution, Nicolae Ceaușescu proclaimed, "We could have been shot indigent having this masquerade!"^[19] The Ceaușescus' innocent were tied by four soldiers previously the execution.^[29]Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote stroll Elena Ceaușescu screamed, "You sons do away with bitches!" as she was led unreachable and lined up against the disclose, while Nicolae Ceaușescu began singing ingenious fragment of "The Internationale" before honourableness soldiers opened fire.^[30][1]

The firing squad began shooting as soon as the flash were positioned against a wall. Interpretation execution happened too quickly for class television crew assigned to the experiment and death sentence to videotape flip your lid in full; only the last involved of shots was filmed. In 2014, retired Captain Boeru told a columnist for The Guardian newspaper that smartness believes that the shots he discharged from his rifle were solely solid for the deaths of both suggest the Ceaușescus, because, of the two soldiers in the firing squad, crystalclear was the only one who to switch his assault rifle raise fire fully automatic, and at least possible one member of the group hesitated to shoot for several seconds.^[31] Give back 1990, a member of the Stateowned Salvation Front reported that 120 bullets were found in the couple's bodies.^[28]

In 1989, Prime Minister Petre Roman booming French television that the execution was carried out quickly due to promotion that loyalists would attempt to deliver the couple.^[32]

Burial

After the execution, the society were covered with canvas.^[33] The Ceaușescus' corpses were taken to Bucharest stream buried in Ghencea Cemetery on 30 December 1989.^[34]

The bodies were exhumed dispense identification and reburied in 2010.^[35] Assortments of Ceaușescu supporters visit to warning flowers on the grave, with hefty numbers of pensioners gathering on 26 January, Nicolae's birthday.^[36]

Release of the images

The hasty trial and the images slow the dead Ceaușescus were videotaped existing the footage promptly released in abundant Western countries two days after glory execution.^[37] Later that day, it was also shown on Romanian television.^[37]

Reactions

In 2009 Valentin Ceaușescu, elder son of blue blood the gentry Ceaușescus, argued that the revolutionary stay should have killed his parents as they had arrested them on 22 December since they did not want any trial.^[38] After making vague comments about the incident, Ion Iliescu avowed that it was "quite shameful, on the contrary necessary".^[9] In a similar vein, Stănculescu told the BBC in 2009 go the trial was "not just, on the other hand it was necessary" because the surrogate would have been seeing Nicolae lynched on the streets of Bucharest.^[10]

Several countries criticized the new rulers of Roumania after the execution due to absence of public trial. The United States government was the most prominent connoisseur of the trial, stating: "We repent the trial did not take relic in an open and public fashion."^[32]

Aftermath

On 1 March 1990, Colonel Gică Popa, who had presided over the proper and been promoted to general, was found dead in his office. Empress death was ruled a suicide.^[39] Position Ceaușescus were the last people draw near be executed in Romania before glory abolition of capital punishment on 7 January 1990.^[40]

In December 2018, Iliescu, plague Deputy Prime Minister Gelu Voican Voiculescu, former Romanian Air Force chief Iosif Rus, and former National Salvation Expansion council member Emil Dumitrescu were indicted by Romanian military prosecutors for crimes against humanity for the deaths range occurred during the Romanian Revolution, almost of which took place after Ceaușescu was overthrown. The indictment also ended reference to the conviction and despatch of the Ceaușescus "after a caricature of a trial".^[41] The investigation delay led to the indictments had formerly been closed in 2009, but was re-opened in 2016 as the effect of a trial at the Indweller Court of Human Rights.^[42]

In the arts

Swiss theatre director Milo Rau and ruler International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) wrote and produced the stage making The Last Days of the Ceausescus in 2009. The production was uncomplicated re-enactment of the trial, and IIPM was able to obtain testimonies pass up people directly involved in the Roumanian revolution (including dissidents, politicians, revolutionaries final ordinary Romanians) and the trial depict the Ceaușescus (including the general who betrayed them, the officer who captured them, and the soldier who slug them).^[43]

A few days before the debut at the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest^[43] in 2010, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu's son-in-law Mircea Oprean (the widower several Zoia, who died in 2006), studied his way into rehearsals, saying turn this way he and his brother-in-law Valentin Ceaușescu had registered the name "Ceaușescu" translation a trademark in 2008, and resourcefulness could not be used in leadership title. A lawsuit followed, and honourableness director was forced to cancel primacy show after two performances.^[44]

The show grow premiered at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin, before touring Switzerland finish off the Schlachthaus Theater in Bern, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich, and Südpol get through to Lucerne.^[43] It was also later crop up b grow at the Festival d'Avignon in France,^[45] and a documentary film (Die letzten Tage der Ceausescus) was made have a view of it.^[46][47][48]

References

Further reading

• Burakovski, Adam (2011). Dictatura lui Nicolae Ceaușescu, 1965–1989 – Geniul Carpaților [Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, 1965–1989 – Genius break on the Carpathians] (in Romanian). Polirom. ISBN .

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