New revelations on 1989 revolution

Published on 20 December 2010 at 12:39

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"I killed for the Revolution," headlines România liberă, publishing a statement by former international sharpshooting champion, Corneliu Stoica, on his role in the revolution of 1989. Nearly 21 years after the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s communist regime, the civil society group "21 December 1989" has published some of the statements made to magistrates investigating the deaths of 1,200 demonstrators who died after 22 December. Stoica affirmed that under instructions from Dan Iosif, a close associate of revolutionary leader Ion Iliescu, he shot several gunmen who opened fire on demonstrators on 22 December, the day Ceauşescu fled Bucharest. România liberă notes that his testimony appears to confirm the theory of a coup d’état ordered by Iliescu and Iosif.

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