PROSECUTOR: Who ordered shooting into the crowd? About The final speech of the prosecutor follows: PROSECUTOR: It is very difficult for us to act, to pass a verdict on people who even now do not want to admit to the criminal offenses that they have committed during 25 years and admit to the genocide, not only in Timisoara and Bucharest, but primarily also to the criminal offenses committed during the past 25 years. Why did you make the peasants starve? ELENA CEAUSESCU: We will not sign any statement. A lie, a lie in my face. PROSECUTOR: Do you not know anything about the order to shoot? ELENA CEAUESCU: Such impudence! Nicolae Ceauescu had been making speeches for over a couple of decades. He was arrested and imprisoned multiple times. I ask the chairman of the prosecutor's office to read the bill of indictment. has openly accused president Obama as unable to lead in world. PROSECUTOR: Whether you have ever had a mental illness. The day began as it ended with vehement anti-Ceauescu demonstrations. Now we are making a last attempt. CEAUSESCU: I repeat: I am the president of Romania and the commander in chief of the Romanian army. As the crowd becomes more unruly, Ceausescu becomes more confused and he begins arguing with the unseen hecklers. Fiction. The counsel for the defense now takes the floor and instructs the Ceausescus once again that they have the right to defense and that they should accept this right. The Man at the Top increasingly pulls on disconnected controls, yet still imagines he is in charge. VIENNA, Austria (AP) _ For the first time that anybody could remember, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu was interrupted at a public speech by boos and jeers that began a huge demonstration against him in Bucharest Thursday. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Mr. President, I would like to know something: the accused should tell us who the mercenaries are. What prevents him from doing so? Another question . At the beginning, Ceausescu claimed that it is a provocation to be asked whether he was sick. No Way In at Amazon Kindle $8.95, print $9.99. Thirty years on, will the guilty pay for horror of Ceauescu orphanages? What should he ask us? Please make a note that here it has been stated that all legal regulations have been observed, that this is a legal trial. Everybody should be paid according to his performance. PROSECUTOR: Do you not know anything about the order to shoot? Elena answers: The intellectuals of this country should hear you, you and your colleagues. One momentCeauescu was in total control of Romania, determined to crush his enemies. There is still shooting going on, the prosecutor says. These two defendants procured the most luxurious foodstuffs and clothes from abroad. Like a jalopy falling apart on the road, dropping a screw here and a spring there, the Obama administration is gradually shaking itself to pieces. Nicolae Ceausescu - Last Speech, Trial and Execution - History Channel (ENG subtitled) ac agencija 258 subscribers Subscribe 743 Save 111K views 3 years ago Notice Age-restricted video (based. He had been falling for a long time, and proved the last to know. ELENA CEAUSESCU: The terrorists are from Securitate. The people only received 200 grams per day, against an identity card. The entire intelligentsia of the country ran away. They are cowards. PROSECUTOR: Why do you think that people are fighting today? PROSECUTOR: Let us now talk about the accounts in Switzerland, Mr. Ceauescu. Here Nicolae Ceauescu steps in and defends her. The front rows of the assembly were made up of low-level Communist Party officials and members who acted as cheer-leaders. Its provisional leader is the 73-year-old former Foreign Minister, Mr Corneliu Mnescu. Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the former President and his wife, Elena, last night. Bucharest television said that they had left the country. Nobody is likely to rise up and become a Man on Horseback. Everybody should be paid according to his performance. PROSECUTOR: And who wrote the papers for you, Elena? Some people will continue to believe the narrative, but even among the acolytes, the fatal smoke of doubt has entered the temple. The process usually follows this path. The following is a transcript of the closed trial of Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceauescu and his wife, Elena, as shown on Romanian and Austrian television. The Ceauescu administrations Prime Minister, Mr Constantin Dsclescu, and his government were said to have resigned. No, no, he says. PROSECUTOR: Mr. Chairman, we find the two accused guilty of having committed criminal actions according to the following articles of the penal code: Articles 162, 163, 165 and 357. Elena Ceauescu's last moments were as pathetic as one could imagine. He did not realize, however, that a real revolution was starting right before his eyes. I will not answer any more. No one was shot. They carried out acts that are incompatible with human dignity and social thinking; they acted in a despotic and criminal way; they destroyed the people whose leaders they claimed to be. PROSECUTOR: And who wrote the papers for you, Elena? Have you understood them? They were given red flags, banners and large pictures of Ceauescu. Fanatics, whom you are paying. "Stenographic transcript of meeting of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party," August 17, 1968, History . The bill of indictment contains the following points: Genocide, in accordance with Article 356 of the penal code. I will not answer anymore. What about the accounts? The mighty Law of the Land is exposed as all bark and no bite; a fine they cant enforce. His country passed from traditional monarchy to troubled democracy to royal dictatorship to military control to occupied territory. The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli I will not speak with you provocateurs anymore, and I will not speak with the organizers of the putsch and with the mercenaries. They were even worse than the king, the former king of Romania. PROSECUTOR: Note the following: The defendant refuses to sign this statement. For example,the administration recently issued a new list of prisoners to be released from Guantanamo, citing theirpractice of yogaas proof they had reformed. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I will answer any question, but only at the Grand National Assembly, before the representatives of the working class. Ceauescus hated son, Nicu, a one-time candidate to follow his father as the countrys leader, was said to have been arrested in the city of Sibiu as he was trying to take hostages. Despite this, I ask the court to make a decision which we will be able to justify later as well. But who gave the order to shoot? Military base Tirgoviste - December 25th 1989. Suntem in fata unui tribunal al poporului. The problem with the Narrative is that it suppresses the dispersed information by insisting on the centralized knowledge, on stories the elite make up themselves. How can one say something like this? NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I do not recognize this court. As hard as it may be to believe, there was a time when . PROSECUTOR: In all district capitals, which you grandly called municipalities, there is shooting going on. Their son, Nicu, was shown on television under arrest. PROSECUTOR: We have wonderful programs. Transcript of the closed trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauescu, https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Transcript_of_the_closed_trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceauescu&oldid=6470911, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The prosecutor agrees, but stresses that they lived in them while the people suffered. TheWashington Timesreports that a top intelligence official is accusing the Obama admininistration of funding a terror network for the next ten years, alleging the administration paid a cash ransom to redeem Bowe Bergdahl. PROSECUTOR: Why do you think that people are fighting today? Stanley double-crossed Richard at the crucial moment. Ceauescu answers: As I said before, the people are fighting for their freedom and against this putsch, against this usurpation. We will speak only at the National Assembly, because we have worked hard for the people all our lives. [1] The crowd, now totaling up to 80,000, were given orders on where to stand, when to applaud and what to sing. In the wake of growing tension over an uprising in Timioara in which thousands were reportedly killed, Ceauescu decided to give a nationally televised speech before a crowd in Palace Square . PROSECUTOR: So you know the new forum. Teams of doctors with emergency medical supplies were being flown in from Geneva last night. The details are known. The video- shown live on Romanian television-- shows his confusion and consternation and the barely audible comments. We have sacrificed all our lives to the people. The History: Last Speech, Trial and Execution Decades of brutal oppression under the Ceausescu regime came to a head in Timisoara, earlier that same December. The palaces belong to the people. CEAUSESCU: This is not possible at all. PROSECUTOR: Please, ask Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu whether they have ever had a mental illness. One announcer called it the heart of our nation. You need not admit your mistakes, mister. Tell the people that I will answer all their questions. This page was last modified on 10 April 2016, at 21:40. It is a lie that I made the people starve. He answers: I am the president of Romania, and I am the commander in chief of the Romanian army. The entire intelligentsia of the country ran away. The catastrophic situation of the country is known all over the world. Copyright 2023 PJMedia.com/Salem Media. Last modified on Sun 29 Mar 2020 07.01 EDT President Nicolae Ceauescu was overthrown yesterday and became a fugitive in the country he has ruled for 24 years as remnants of his personal troops. Witnesses saw scores of people shot down in the centre of Bucharest in the evening and around the burning royal palace where the Ceauescu family had made their home. PROSECUTOR: This is how you worked with the people and exercised your functions! PROSECUTOR: Children cannot even buy plain candy, and you are living in the palaces of the people. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I do not recognize you. The people were slaves. You need not admit your mistakes, mister. Paper is patient. quotes Israeli oppositionists as accusing Benjamin Netanyahu of loathing Barack Obama so intensely it has endangering the Jewish states security. At that very moment, many everyday Romanians saw the weakness of Ceauescu's regime for the first time. No one wanted to do anything for you anymore. This year, the crowd begins to chant unscripted comments back at the dictator. You were so impertinent as to cut off oxygen lines in hospitals and to shoot people in their hospital beds. Robert Ford, the former US ambassador to Syria, has effectively accused the Obama administration of abandoning genuinely pro-American rebels in Syria thereby allowing the ascendance of al-Qaeda. I hope that you do not also work for the foreigners and for the destruction of Romania. They carried out acts that are incompatible with human dignity and social thinking; they acted in a despotic and criminal way; they destroyed the people whose leaders they claimed to be. I only recognize the working class and the Grand National Assembly -- no one else. Whatever the reason, the result is that the penalty will raise $27 billion less over the next decade than the CBO had originally expected. The notorious programme of razing villages in the countryside would be halted. CEAUSESCU: I do not recognize this new forum. As a simple citizen, I tell you the following: For the first time I guaranteed that every peasant received 200 kilograms of wheat per person, not per family, and that he is entitled to more. PROSECUTOR: Well, Mr. ELENA CEAUSESCU: How can one tell us something like this? But we are not talking about people. One in four of the population is believed to have a member. This is our home. This shows how little patriotism there is, how many treasonable offenses were committed. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: No one recognizes that. Another question to Ceausescu: Who ordered the bloodbath in Timisoara. I would not call for the death sentence, but it would be incomprehensible for the Romanian people to have to go on suffering this great misery and not to have it ended by sentencing the two Ceauescus to death. At that moment Elena says to Nicolae: Forget about them. Tip Jar or Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the Belmont Club. Two: Armed attack on the people and the state power, in accordance with Article 163 of the penal code. You were the most important aide, the number two in the cabinet, in the government. Paper is patient. As the crowd becomes more unruly, Ceausescu becomes more confused and he begins arguing with the unseen hecklers. Who are these fanatics? I do not recognize this court. You were not used to talking to the people. They are speaking about injustice, ineptitude and impeachment. Defendant, if you had no accounts in Switzerland, will you sign a statement confirming that the money that may be in Switzerland should be transferred to the Romanian state, the State Bank. ELENA CEAUESCU: We will not sign any statement. I told you right at the beginning that I will not answer a single question. A flight into peril, flashbacks to underground action. A later article shows that Australia is moving toward. Ceausescu and his wife were later captured, tried, and executed. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I will not say anything more. In the essay The Use of Knowledge in Society, Hayek argued that in complex systems the relevant facts are dispersed among many people. This shows again how false the charges are. The produce which the peasants grew was exported, and the peasants came from the most remote provinces to Bucharest and to the other cities in order to buy bread. Every honest citizen who worked hard here until 22 December knows that we do not have medicines, that you two have killed children and other people in this way, that there is nothing to eat, no heating, no electricity. The prosecutor turns to Elena: You have always been wiser and more ready to talk, a scientist. Those moments of Ceausescus weakness and the power of popular pressure explain why, a mere 48 hours later, Ceausescu was attempting to flee Romania, all power lost. I told you right at the beginning that I will not answer a single question. A later article shows that Australia is moving toward purchasing Japanese submarines to replace its existing fleet. I do not recognize the court. The prosecutor says: The world already knows what has happened here. Thousands of workers were bussed into the square under threat of being fired. This gang will be destroyed. You are guilty of these offenses even if you do not want to admit it. The prosecutor cites all academic titles she had always claimed to have. The counsel for the defense now takes the floor and instructs the Ceauescus once again that they have the right to defense and that they should accept this right. Its bulletins provide a dramatic account of the most important day in Romanias history since the Communist takeover in 1948. PROSECUTOR: Did you hear the charges? I now ask the court to pass a verdict on the basis of the law, because everybody must receive due punishment for the offenses he has committed. Its just that he makes it so hard to do so.. Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu should be punished in a really legal trial. They organized the putsch. The front rows of the assembly were made up of low-level Communist Party officials and members who acted as cheer-leaders. The streets and squares of Bucharest were littered with torn portraits and shattered busts of the President and his wife. Nicolae Ceauescu (Romanian pronunciation: [nikola.e tea.uesku]; 26 January 1918 -- 25 December 1989) was a Romanian Communist politician. PROSECUTOR: You claim to have taken measures so that every peasant is entitled to 200 kilograms of wheat. Judecator Gica POPA. I ask the court, as the plaintiff, to take note that proof has been furnished for all these points, that the two have committed the offenses mentioned. The court notes that the investigations have been concluded. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I do not recognize this court. They are cowards. CEAUSESCU: She was not a deputy prime minister, but the first deputy prime minister. An important historical square located on Victoriei Street. Since the old government has been dissolved and Ceausescu has lost his functions, he no longer has the right to be treated as the president. I am talking to you as simple citizens at the least, as simple citizens, and I tell you: I am the president of Romania. NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I will not answer. PROSECUTOR: This situation is known. And today you are acting in the same megalomaniac way. It is a historic time, given that no military member goes public to speak negatively about the ultimate commander. CHIEF PROSECUTOR: Esteemed chairman of the court, today we have to pass a verdict on the defendants Nicolae Ceauescu and Elena Ceauescu who have committed the following offenses: crimes against the people. CEAUSESCU: As a citizen, as a simple citizen, I tell you the following: At no point was there such an upswing, so much construction, so much consolidation in the Romanian provinces. The National Salvation Front is now our supreme body. Forget what the politicians on Capitol Hill are saying about the prisoner swap. Not a single shot was fired in Palace Square. The story ofCeauescus final speech is a textbook example. His talks with Dubcek focused primarily on the events that had unfolded in Czechoslovakia over the last several months. Richard III of England rode into Bosworth Field relying on his ally Baron Stanely to come to his aid. Finally, I would like to refer once more to the genocide, the numerous killings carried out during the past few days. It should be stated once and for all that this military court is absolutely legal and that the former positions of the two Ceauescus are no longer valid. Only a few hours before the Genius of the Carpathians had been in apparently complete command. Centralized regimes may seem to collapse suddenly, yet in reality they have been coming apart for a long time. The video- shown live on Romanian television-- shows his confusion and consternation and the barely audible comments. They are shooting at children; they are shooting arbitrarily into the apartments. Shakespeare dramatized the turnabout in his famous scene. ELENA CEAUSESCU: I will not answer. It was one of the most pivotal moments in the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Perhaps the biggest example of thisis a CBO report that while 30 million people will technically be liable to pay the Obamacare Individual Mandate fine but in practice all but 4 million will have their fines waived or exempted. He would be executed a few days later. Tax experts say the best it can do is withhold the penalty amount from any tax refund due. I have nothing to do with them. And you might perhaps have achieved the understanding of the Romanian people if you had now admitted your guilt. I am talking to you as simple citizens at the least, as simple citizens, and I tell you: I am the president of Romania. Since the old government has been dissolved and Ceauescu has lost his functions, he no longer has the right to be treated as the president. The next he was a hunted man. Who pays them? Sections in italic type are from Austrian television comentary: NICOLAE CEAUESCU: I only recognize the Grand National Assembly. This demonstrates their lack of understanding. The destruction of buildings and state institutions, undermining of the national economy, in accordance with Articles 165 and 145 of the penal code. CEAUSESCU: Her scientific papers were published abroad! Ceausescu relates his recent meeting with Dubcek in Prague in August 1968. 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