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Thursday, December 16, 2004

Ion Iliescu sets Miron Cosma free !

NEWS UPDATE: Miron Cosma has left the Rahova prison at 16:30. Just one hour after the decrete has been published in Monitorul Oficial. So he did see it comming !!

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Ion Iliescu, (still) president of Romania, signed yesterday a decrete through which he is setting free Miron Cosma.

Miron Cosma has been emprisoned for conducting the revoltes in Romania started in Valea Jiului in 1990, 1991 and 1999.

In 1990 and 1991, under the leadership of Miron Cosma, the miners from Valea Jiului marched into Bucharest in protest against government opposition. In January 1999, Cosma again attempted to assert his power by calling the miners to protest once more.

Miron Cosma is known to be an ally of Mr. Iliescu, helping him in 1990 and 1991. At the same time, Miron Cosma is hated by the Romanian people for conducting revoltes that killed many people (specially students) in Bucharest, in 1990 and 1991.

Miron Cosma has been sentenced to 18 years of emprisonment in February 1999, under the presidency of Mr. Constantinescu.

The decrete that is setting up Cosma has been signed by Mr. Iliescu yesterday (15 december 2004) and will be applied when published in the Monitorul Oficial.

Most of the Romanian Civil Society, as well as lots of Romanians have to be extremely dissapointed by this decrete.

Posted by Mihai : 12/16/2004 01:33:00 pm