Asociația 21Decembrie 1989

Romania: ’89 Revolution Files Will Be Declassified

The Defense Ministry will declassify 8,000 secret documents relating to the 1989 anti-Communist revolution. The ministry’s decision came after the European Court of Human Rights ruled last year that a copy of the whole revolution file should be handed over to an association of former revolutionaries. One revolutionary fighter, Doru Maries, said Friday that he hoped the documents would provide answers about who shot unarmed demonstrators during a revolt in which more than 1,100 people died. Twenty years after the revolution, in which the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was toppled and executed, only two people have been convicted.