Minerial of June 13–15, 1990. Attack on Democracy and Unhealed Wounds of Bucharest

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Only half a year after the bloody fall of the communist regime in December 1989, Romania hoped to move definitively on the path of democracy and freedom of expression. However, by mid-June 1990 it would bring to the capital the most violent, polarizing and traumatic episode in post-december history: the third Mineriad. For three days, Bucharest became the theatre of violence of an extreme cruelty, orchestrated by the newly installed political po…

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On June 13, 1990, one of the most serious episodes of political violence in Romania after the Revolution began. After nearly two months of protests in the University Square, law enforcement forces intervened to evacuate the area, and events quickly degenerated into street clashes, fires and attacks on public institutions. The University Square protest began on April 22, 1990 and had as its main claim the application of paragraph 8 of the Timisoa…

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On June 13, 1990, the most violent mining site in post-december Romania began, when peaceful protests in University Square were brutally repressed, and miners were brought to the capital under the pretext of re-establishment of order.