Prime Minister Călin Popescu Tăriceanu on the Occasion of the Release of the Annual Report Presented by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania (IICCR)
organized a press conference on the occasion of the release of its annual report and its volume Why Communism Must Be Condemned. The book includes essays
such as An Insight into the Securitate Apparatus by Marius Oprea, The Physiognomy of Nomenclature by Raluca Grosescu, The Writers and the Securitate by Clara Mareş, Public Figures under the Incidence of Lustration by Mihai Burcea and Mihail Bumbeş. The event took place on
5 December 2006, 12.00 pm, at New Europe College, 21 Plantelor Street.
The projects initiated by the IICCR were also presented. A special focus is going to be placed on two of them, that is, the opening of the archeological site from Sighet, whose aim is to reveal the mortal remains of a notable number of former political prisoners, leaders of interwar Romania, who were exterminated by the communist regime, and the transformation of the former prisons of Jilava (Fort no. 13) and Râmnicu Sărat into communist repression museums.
His Excellency Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, Prime Minister of Romania, and the members of the IICCR’s Council, namely Andrei Pleşu, Cristian Pârvulescu, Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Gabriel Liiceanu, Petre Mihai Băcanu, Ştefana Bianu, Radu Filipescu, Doina Cornea, Dennis Deletant and Radu Ioanid attended the event. Historians , researchers, representatives of the Romanian exile and former combatants within the anti-communist resistance were also present.
His Excellency Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, Prime Minister of Romania, Mr. Marius Oprea, president of the IICCR, Mr. Stejărel Olaru, director general of the IICCR, and Mrs. Lucia Hossu-Longin, secretary general of the IICCR, furthermore gave short speeches.
