Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Winnipeg free january terrorist trials for secret police Start in Romania major sentenced to nine years Bucharest up a military tribunal sentenced a police major yesterday to nine years in prison for attempted murder in Romanias first Public terrorist Ion bund a was convicted of shooting one Man when he opened fire on a group of five army officers in the Central City of Sabiu on the Day communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in a popular excerpts of Bundas trial in Sabiu were shown on romanian television in a lat night the 49yearold major had been sent from his base in the town of Brasov to Sabiu to help police quell the popular revolt against Ceausescu that was sweeping the Ceausescu and his were executed on Christmas Day after a two hour military the National salvation front that took Power after Ceausescu Over throw announced sunday the set Ting up of military tribunals to try people accused of terrorist a the front uses the term terrorist to describe members of Ceausescu hated Securi Tate secret police who fought the some police and Many of the coun bulgarian protests Spur plea Sofia a leaders of the communist opposition and ethnic groups United in appealing yesterday for an end to protests and strikes Over the decision to restore rights to Bulgaria ethnic consultations about settling the ethnic dispute began yesterday and will continue All the official news Agency Bra politburo member Mincho Yov Chev said unrest Over the decision 29 to restore religious rights to million ethnic turks and with draw the requirement that they take bulgarian names has created the first serious crisis since reforms began two months Petar who replaced Todor Zsivkov As party chief 10 and ended 35 years of stalinist gov defended the policy rever Sal in a meeting with slav National he told leaders of the Council for the defence of National interests that the 1984 decisions restricting the rights of ethnic most of whom Are were very grave Bra one result of these errors has been Bulgaria Complete International Mladenov and the Only Way out of that situation was to restore the constitutional rights of All the Agency a Deputy said the wounds inflicted on bulgarian society As a whole by Zhi Kovs persecution of ethnic turks turned out to be much More serious than we turkish exodus after Zsivkov granted passports last ethnic turks fled Bulgaria for about have complaining of poor housing and Lack of pressed for we were unable to accompany our decision in Princi ple 29 with a comprehensive program on the ethnic he said in a television his comments reflected the predicament of a leadership caught Between demands by the ethnic turkish minority for rights and pro tests by tens of thousands of slav nationalists against different forces take advantage of this to discredit the new Leader ship of the bulgarian communist party and the state and the Polit buro is seeking a practical solution to the ethnic Yevchev he and others have hinted that Shiv Kov loyalists incited ethnic foreign minister Boiko Dimitrov of Bulgaria and the turkish foreign Mesut Are to Dis cuss the problem at a meeting today in at yesterdays meeting of Dele Gates from All groups concerned with the ethnic Trade Union official Krasniw Petkov urged that demonstrations and strikes cease during this week of Bra it said All participants in the talks at the National Assembly supported about 200 people demonstrated in front of the parliament demanding the restrictions on ethnic turks they displayed placards with such nationalist slogans As one one one nationalists have expressed fear their own culture could eventually be overshadowed by that of the whose birth rate is increasing As that of slavs try youth to prevent his Over the prosecution said bund a was trying to shut Down a military Tele phone switchboard to Cut communications with other anti Ceausescu army he ran into a group of five army officers at the shooting one before he was a Stocky Man with a was close to tears when he pleaded i didst want to shoot in my 30 years As a police Man i never shot he has three Days to Appeal his nine year restrictions on travel abroad were lifted and the roman Catholic Church said romanian Bishops had met for the first time in 41 years to discuss How the Church could be rebuilt after decades of communist a City in Southern Transylvania that was ruled by Ceausescu was the site of the first trials of members of these Curi Tate members of the Securi Tate were fiercely Loyal to they continued to terrorize citizens and Battle the army after his fall 22 soldiers guard the Gate of a Bucharest Church to Stop crowds from storming Relief depot and execution three Days a group of terrorists who fought against the people in the army faced a military said a spokesman for the National Salva Tion the provisional govern ment ruling since Ceausescu oust Aurel Dragos the spokesman and director of Televik told a news conference he was unsure How Many Security men would face and gave no details of the exact charges in Sabiu or other centres of heavy fighting such As Bucharest and the Media foreign and domes tic will have Access to the Tribu he the National salvation front organized the secret military tribunal that ordered the president and his wife executed on since it has abolished the death meaning that the captured men of crack Security units who battled the army after Ceausescu was ousted face a Maxi mum sentence of life in Munteanu said those still under investigation include Nicu Ceausescu and Lulian the for Mer head of the which has been ordered disbanded by the new interim president Ion Iliescu signed a decree yesterday providing for the right to free travel the state compress news Agency the decree also abolished the exit entry visas and stipulated that passport seekers Are entitled to a passport within 20 Days after apply and in justified emergency cases within three Days at the in View of securing the Funda mental rights and freedoms of the romanian citizens All Romani an citizens older than irrespective or Mother political beliefs and occupation have the right to travel freely compress under romanians had to wait at least three months to get a which in Many cases was not elderly people were As a Rule allowed to travel to the but younger people or couples were Israel hopeful t East bloc thaw end of isolation Chicago Tribune Jerusalem israeli officials were quietly marvelling yesterday Over the latest signs of the thaw in relations with their once staunch opponents from the Warsaw the signs added to their about an end to israels isolation from most of Eastern eur after the six Day War of the soviet Union severed its ties with sparking a break that was carried out by All the Warsaw pact countries except these events yesterday buoyed israelis enthusiasm d the first official delegation from Czechoslovakia in More than 22 years arrived in d polish officials in Warsaw 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