35 years since the first mining. Justice is late, democracy collapses
It has been 35 years since the first mining, a dark episode in the history of post-December Romania, when the peaceful protest in the University Square was crushed with the sticks and violence brought by train from the Jiu Valley. The Romanians were beaten, humiliated, arrested for no reason. The young people who demanded freedom and justice were treated as enemies of the state.
‘The mining file of June 13-15, 1990 is still being judged at the High Court. Once at a time, hearings are made, the files are walking between institutions, but so. The truth is expected, and justice seems blocked by the networks of the past. Earlier this year, Ion Iliescu and Petre Roman were again charged in this file. The military prosecutors accused them, almost 35 years after the events, of orchestrated the repression against the civilians who protested in the University Square.
Today we are not just looking at a painful page of history, we live again a blow to democracy.
The elections were vitiated, and the popular will is ignored. Freedom of expression is restricted: those who dare to criticize the system are raised from the street, fined, arrested. The videos of independent analysts, journalists and commentators are censored from social media platforms. A forced silence is established again, as in the 1990s.
Just as the sticks and miners were sent to stifle freedom, today institutional abuse and digital censorship suppress free thinking. The power is afraid, again, of the free expressed opinion, « said Petrișor Peiu, the leader of the gold senators.
Romania deserves truth. Romania deserves justice. Romania deserves freedom. We do not forget June 13-15, 1990. We do not accept the repression of 2025.
