TRANSCRIPT OF THE CLOSED TRIAL OF NICOLAE AND ELENA CEAUSESCU

Military base Tirgoviste - December 25th 1989


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. This demonstrates their
lack of understanding. They not only deprived the people of heating,
electricity, and foodstuffs, they also tyrannized the soul of the
Romanian people. They not only killed children, young people and
adults in Timisoara and Bucharest; they allowed Securitate members to
wear military uniforms to create the impression among the people that
the army is against them. They wanted to separate the people from the
army. They used to fetch people from orphans' homes or from abroad
whom they trained in special institutions to become murderers of their
own people. You were so impertinent as to cut off oxygen lines in
hospitals and to shoot people in their hospital beds. The Securitate
had hidden food reserves on which Bucharest could have survived for
months, the whole of Bucharest.

So far, they have always claimed that we have built this
country, we have paid our debts, but with this they bled the country
to death and have hoarded enough money to ensure their escape. You
need not admit your mistakes, mister. In 1947, we assumed power, but
under completely different circumstances. In 1947, King Michael showed
more dignity than you. And you might perhaps have achieved the
understanding of the Romanian people if you had now admitted your
guilt. You should have stayed in Iran where you had flown to.



Esteemed Mr. Chairman, I have been one of those who, as a
lawyer, would have liked to oppose the death sentence, because it is
inhuman. But we are not talking about people. 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 Ceausescus to death. The crimes against
the people grew year by year. They were only busy enslaving the people
and building up an apparatus of power. They were not really interested
in the people.



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