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News / International
16 Dec. 2019 / 11:20
'Freedom march' marks 30 years since Romania's revolution
Romania kicked off a series of commemorations to mark 30 years since the overthrow of the tyrannical regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, staging a "freedom march" in the town of Timisoara, cradle of the 1989 revolution, AFP reports.
Waving Romanian flags in the torchlit procession, several hundred people marched to the red-brick temple whose Reformed Church pastor Laszlo Tokes was expelled for criticising the Ceaucescu dictatorship in his sermons.
A plaque beside the sanctuary's door reads in Romanian, Hungarian, German and Serbian -- the languages of Timisoara's different communities: "The revolution that ended the dictatorship began here."
The slogans of 30 years ago such as "Today in Timisoara, tomorrow across the country" could be heard again on Sunday.
In all, 1.104 people were killed in fighting for Romania's revolution and 3,552 were injured.
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