-- Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania, strongly disagrees with his being incriminated in the media products on the events from 13-15 June 1990 and he says the historic truth on the miners' race in the summer of 1990 is being replaced by "lies and media-based manipulation". He considers that the authors of the manipulations are exactly the ones who generated the violent actions at that time and who wish to impose their own version on the events. We give you some fragments below of the former president's standpoint.
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1. The manifestation in the University Square (Piata Universitatii) was a prolonged and illegal electoral meeting. (...) This meeting lost its reason for being after the 20 May 1990 elections.
2. The statement that on 13 June 1990 the manifestation in the University Square was savagely repressed is a lie. Right after the elections, the main organizers, including the Students' League, announced their withdrawal from the Square. About two hundred persons left there, the so-called "hunger strikers", installed in the tents on the esplanade of the National Theatre. They were supported by two organizations, "The 21 December Association" and "the People's League". Their refuse to leave the Square was unjustified.
3. During the electoral meeting in the University Square there was no confrontation with the forces for maintaining the order. Those who were ruling Romania at that time chose a non-conflict approach, in spite of the invitation to violence and of the provocation from the side of the participants in the meeting. That is why, on 11 June 1990, an agreement was signed between the hunger strikers in front of the National Theatre and Anton Vatasescu, vice-prime minister in the provisional Government led by Petre Roman. By this agreement the strikers obliged themselves to clear the area. On the grounds of this Agreement, the Government approved a plan for restoring the traffic in the area, which involved the evacuation of the tents, the sanitation and the redecoration of the area, the restoration of the street, of the road signs etc. The evacuation of the hunger strikers didn't imply major incidents and was deployed on 13 June 1990, at dawn.
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6. Official buildings had been attacked and devastated, such as: the SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service) seat, that of the Police Department of the Capital, of the Ministry of Interior, the Cultural Center of the Ministry of Interior. Official documents, blank ID papers, guns and ammunition had been stolen. Other groups had attacked the public TV station, had destroyed tapes and cassettes from the archive, had threatened with death the technical and managing staff, and had destroyed equipment. All these led to an interruption in the broadcasting of the public TV station. The acts of vandalism presented live on TV, the heavy clouds of smoke going up over the Capital and the obvious incapacity of the police forces to re-establish order and to control the situation gave rise to fear, so much the more as people did not understand the springs of that outburst of violence. The people had pronounced freely in election, there was a legitimate power, a new Government was about to be made up and the Constituent Assembly to begin its activity. The fact that an extremely aggressive minority chose to violently contest the choice of the people gave birth to some rejection reactions.
8. This unusual and dangerous evolution for the country determined my appeal, as the chief of State, elected by the citizens with 85% of the suffrages, in which I was asking them to fulfil their civic duty and to defend democracy, to come and support the institutions of the rule of law.
9. It was not my appeal, to which the citizens of the Capital and those from the neighbouring counties answered, but the state of anarchy installed in Bucharest that brought here the miners of five mining basins, not only those from Jiu River Valley. Violence of the miners and of other citizens is blamable as well, condemnable and unforgivable as that of the anarchist groups from the afternoon, the evening and the night of 13 June 1990. If we want to find out who "called" the miners to Bucharest, we need to find out who ordered and organized the violent actions on the day of 13 June 1990. (...)”
Ion Iliescu
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