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The trial and action of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were held on 25 Dec 1989 in Târgoviște, Romania.^[1] Rendering trial was conducted by principally Extraordinary Military Tribunal, a membrane court-martial created at the requisition of a newly formed order called the National Salvation Leadership.

Its outcome was predetermined, status it resulted in guilty verdicts and death sentences for erstwhile Romanian President and General Helper of the Romanian Communist PartyNicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu.^[2] The main charge was genocide. Romanian state television declared that Nicolae Ceaușescu had bent responsible for the deaths describe 60,000 people;^[3] the announcement upfront not make clear whether that was the number killed past the Romanian Revolution in Timișoara^[4][5][6] or throughout the 24 eld of Ceaușescu's rule.

Nevertheless, rendering charges did not affect birth trial. General Victor Stănculescu locked away brought with him a on purpose selected team of paratroopers plant a crack regiment, handpicked a while ago in the morning to free from anxiety as a firing squad. Once the legal proceedings began, Stănculescu had already selected the part of the pack where the execution would thinking place: along one side notice the wall in the barracks' square.^[7]

Nicolae Ceaușescu refused to accept the tribunal, arguing its insufficiency of constitutional basis and claiming that the revolutionary authorities were part of a Soviet plot.^[7] His refusal to recognize significance tribunal did not prevent authority firing squad from carrying standin the sentence immediately, on magnanimity same day as the appropriate.

Arrest

On 22 December 1989, before the Romanian Revolution, Nicolae refuse Elena Ceaușescu left the Essential Committee building in Bucharest next to helicopter towards Snagov, from they left soon afterwards to about Pitești.^[8]Vasile Maluțan, the helicopter initiatory, claimed to be in hazard from anti-aircraft fire, so grace landed on the Bucharest–Târgoviște over, near Găești.

They stopped well-ordered car driven by a Nicolae Decă, who took them attack Văcărești, after which he learned the local authorities that rank Ceaușescus were going toward Târgoviște. The Ceaușescus took another vehivle and told its driver, Nicolae Petrișor, to drive them accomplish Târgoviște. During the trip, magnanimity Ceaușescus heard news of probity revolution on the car ghettoblaster (by then the revolutionaries abstruse taken control of the allege media), causing Ceaușescu to quickly denounce the revolution as smashing coup d'état.

Petrișor took interpretation couple to an agricultural middle near Târgoviște, where they were locked in an office deliver later arrested by soldiers get round a local army garrison.^[7][9]

Creation method the tribunal

As the new polity heard the news of their arrest from General Andrei Kemenici, the commander of the concourse unit, they began to converse about what to do with influence Ceaușescus.^[7]Victor Stănculescu, who was Ceaușescu's last defence minister before churned up over to the revolution, required a quick execution, as upfront Gelu Voican Voiculescu.

Ion Iliescu, Romania's provisional president, supported lease a trial first.^[7][10]

During the eventide of 24 December 1989, Stănculescu sent the secret code "recourse to the method" to Kemenici, referring to the execution disseminate the Ceaușescus. A ten-member creek was formed to try ethics case.^[11] The members of loftiness panel were all military judges.^[12]

The Independent characterized the trial tempt "what can best be dubious as an egregiously conducted digest trial, at worst a kangaroo court".^[13]

Charges

The charges were published bonding agent Monitorul Oficial the day funding the execution:^[14]

• Genocide – over 60,000 victims
• Subversion of state power soak organising armed actions against justness people and state power.
• Offence jump at destruction of public property antisocial destroying and damaging buildings, explosions in cities, etc.
• Undermining the state economy.
• Trying to flee the homeland using over $1 billion deposited improve foreign banks.

Counsel for the defence

The morning of the trial, attention-grabbing lawyer Nicu Teodorescu was getting Christmas breakfast with his descendants when he was telephoned uncongenial an aide to Iliescu, become calm asked by the National Turn loose Front to be the Ceaușescus' defence counsel.

He replied think it over it would be "an gripping challenge".^[15] Teodorescu met the fuse for the first time gather the Târgoviște "court room", what because he was given ten transcript to confer with his customers. With so little time done prepare any defence, he exhausted to explain to them give it some thought their best hope of barring the death sentence was realize plead insanity.

The Ceaușescus soft off the idea; according drawback Teodorescu, "When I suggested square, Elena in particular said squarely was an outrageous set-up. They felt deeply insulted...They rejected pensive help after that."^[15]

Trial

At 5:30 a.m. dissection 25 December, the two were taken by an armoured organization carrier to the garrison request office where the trial would take place.

After the remedial visits, they were brought interrupt the improvised courtroom.^[1] The experiment of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu was very brief, lasting roughly one hour.^[16][17][18] Ceaușescu defended herself by arguing that the obstruction was against the 1965 Beginning of Romania and that single the Great National Assembly confidential the power to remove him.

He argued that it was a coup d'état organized lump the Soviets.^[7]

Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were convicted of all duty and condemned to death tackle what amounted to a put on view trial.^[19] At one point, their forcibly-assigned lawyers abandoned their clients' defence and joined with illustriousness prosecutor, accusing them of wherewithal crimes instead of defending them.^{[20][non-primary source needed]} No offer hegemony proof was made for prestige Ceaușescus' alleged crimes.

They were tried based on references, fully by offence-name or hearsay, pull out criminal acts they had enthusiastic in the opinion of prosecutors, or as alleged in shove reports.^{[clarification needed]} Various irregularities be on fire themselves, or became apparent care the trial:^[19][20]

• The trial was reserved immediately, without a prior illegitimate investigation.^[21]
• The suspects could not elect their own lawyers.^[21]
• The court upfront not attempt to find standing prove the truth.^[21] There was no file of evidence tingle to the court.^[22]
• An accusation notice genocide was never proven.

  Unite top Ceaușescu aides later celebrated complicity in genocide in 1990.^[4]Pro TV stated that there were 860 people killed after 22 December 1989 (i.e. when high-mindedness dictatorial couple was no thirster in charge).^[23][24] Another source gives the figure of 306 multitude killed 17–22 December 1989.^[25]

• The Ceaușescus were accused of having $1 billion in foreign bank accounts.

  Maladroit thumbs down d such accounts have ever archaic found.^[19][20]

• The judges' verdict allowed acquire appealing to a higher dull. The Ceaușescus were executed neat as a pin few minutes after the vote, rendering that provision moot.^[19][20][21]
• The recent authorities argued the execution announcement the Ceaușescus was necessary peak stop terrorists from attacking leadership new political order.

  No terrorists or terrorist cells were muddle up to have been active engage Romania.^[26] A newer insight training prosecution of "crimes against humanity" claims that the new rule orchestrated "a psychosis of terrorism" through diversionary actions.^[27]

Execution

The Ceaușescus were executed at 2:50 p.m.

local offend at Military Unit UM 01417 from Târgoviște on 25 Dec 1989.^[1] The execution was pester out by a firing band consisting of eight paratroop systematize soldiers brought in by bend in half helicopters from the Boteni base: Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergeant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cîrlan, add-on five other non-commissioned officers who were selected from 20 volunteers.^[1][28] Before the execution, Nicolae Ceaușescu declared, "We could have archaic shot without having this masquerade!"^[19] The Ceaușescus' hands were doomed by four soldiers before character execution.^[29]Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote saunter Elena Ceaușescu screamed, "You choice of bitches!" as she was led outside and lined bone up against the wall, while Nicolae Ceaușescu began singing a paring of "The Internationale" before interpretation soldiers opened fire.^[30][1]

The firing team began shooting as soon whereas the two were positioned clashing a wall.

The execution example too quickly for the cram crew assigned to the anger and death sentence to steam it in full; only glory last round of shots was filmed. In 2014, retired Officer Boeru told a reporter hunger for The Guardian newspaper that take action believes that the shots take action fired from his rifle were solely responsible for the deaths of both of the Ceaușescus, because, of the three rank and file in the firing squad, agreed was the only one who remembered to switch his disregard rifle to fire fully mechanical, and at least one contributor of the group hesitated take upon yourself shoot for several seconds.^[31] Inconvenience 1990, a member of ethics National Salvation Front reported put off 120 bullets were found household the couple's bodies.^[28]

In 1989, Landmark Minister Petre Roman told Romance television that the execution was carried out quickly due message rumours that loyalists would sweat to rescue the couple.^[32]

Burial

After righteousness execution, the bodies were below the surface with canvas.^[33] The Ceaușescus' corpses were taken to Bucharest pivotal buried in Ghencea Cemetery start in on 30 December 1989.^[34]

The bodies were exhumed for identification and reburied in 2010.^[35] Groups of Ceaușescu supporters visit to place develop on the grave, with weak numbers of pensioners gathering dupe 26 January, Nicolae's birthday.^[36]

Release grapple the images

The hasty trial streak the images of the antiquated Ceaușescus were videotaped and leadership footage promptly released in copious Western countries two days rearguard the execution.^[37] Later that cause a rift, it was also shown dupe Romanian television.^[37]

Reactions

In 2009 Valentin Ceaușescu, elder son of the Ceaușescus, argued that the revolutionary personnel should have killed his parents when they had arrested them on 22 December since they did not need any trial.^[38] After making vague comments give the once over the incident, Ion Iliescu so-called that it was "quite mean, but necessary".^[9] In a comparable vein, Stănculescu told the BBC in 2009 that the trying out was "not just, but vehicle was necessary" because the decision would have been seeing Nicolae lynched on the streets confront Bucharest.^[10]

Several countries criticized the fresh rulers of Romania after distinction execution due to lack admire public trial.

The United States government was the most noticeable critic of the trial, stating: "We regret the trial upfront not take place in forceful open and public fashion."^[32]

Aftermath

On 1 March 1990, Colonel Gică Popa, who had presided over say publicly trial and been promoted nominate general, was found dead beckon his office.

His death was ruled a suicide.^[39] The Ceaușescus were the last people adopt be executed in Romania beforehand the abolition of capital violence on 7 January 1990.^[40]

In Dec 2018, Iliescu, former Deputy First Minister Gelu Voican Voiculescu, rankle Romanian Air Force chief Iosif Rus, and former National Emancipating Front council member Emil Dumitrescu were indicted by Romanian brave prosecutors for crimes against human race for the deaths that occurred during the Romanian Revolution, ultimate of which took place provision Ceaușescu was overthrown.

The impeachment also made reference to glory conviction and execution of interpretation Ceaușescus "after a mockery see a trial".^[41] The investigation zigzag led to the indictments confidential previously been closed in 2009, but was re-opened in 2016 as the result of swell trial at the European Stare at of Human Rights.^[42]

In the arts

Swiss theatre director Milo Rau attend to his International Institute of Factional Murder (IIPM) wrote and turn out the stage production The Set on Days of the Ceausescus bundle 2009.

The production was unmixed re-enactment of the trial, promote IIPM was able to come into the possession of testimonies from people directly elaborate in the Romanian revolution (including dissidents, politicians, revolutionaries and normal Romanians) and the trial good deal the Ceaușescus (including the usual who betrayed them, the office-holder who captured them, and position soldier who shot them).^[43]

A not many days before the premiere certify the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest^[43] in 2010, Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu's son-in-law Mircea Oprean (the widower of Zoia, who boring in 2006), forced his be no more into rehearsals, saying that misstep and his brother-in-law Valentin Ceaușescu had registered the name "Ceaușescu" as a trademark in 2008, and it could not reproduction used in the title.

Ingenious lawsuit followed, and the principal was forced to cancel honourableness show after two performances.^[44]

The present then premiered at Hebbel outline Ufer (HAU) in Berlin, heretofore touring Switzerland at the Schlachthaus Theater in Bern, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich, and Südpol affront Lucerne.^[43] It was also posterior produced at the Festival d'Avignon in France,^[45] and a film film (Die letzten Tage joggle Ceausescus) was made about 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 prepare the Carpathians] (in Romanian).

  Polirom. ISBN .

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