This
is former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife being led
from the people's courtroom to their EXECUTION in 1989! This happens to
leaders who never listen to the people's cry and force their way.
Sometimes the whole family is executed! HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
The
trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu was held on 25 December 1989 by an
Exceptional Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial created at the
request of a newly formed group called the National Salvation Front. Its
outcome was pre-determined, and it resulted in guilty verdicts and
death sentences for former Romanian President and Romanian Communist
Party General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena
Ceaușescu. The main charge was genocide. Romanian state television
announced that Nicolae Ceaușescu had been responsible for the deaths of
60,000 people; the announcement did not make clear whether this was the
number killed during the Romanian Revolution in Timișoara or throughout
the 24 years of Ceausescu's rule.
Nevertheless, the charges did
not affect the trial. General Victor Stănculescu had brought with him a
specially selected team of paratroopers from a crack regiment,
handpicked earlier in the morning to act as a firing squad. Before the
legal proceedings began, Stănculescu had already selected the spot where
the execution would take place: along one side of the wall in the
barracks' square.
Nicolae Ceaușescu refused to recognize the
tribunal, arguing its lack of constitutional basis and claiming that the
revolutionary authorities were part of a Soviet plot
On 22
December 1989, during the Romanian Revolution, Nicolae and Elena
Ceaușescu left the Central Committee building in Bucharest by helicopter
toward Snagov, from where they left soon afterwards towards Pitești.
The
helicopter pilot claimed to be in danger from anti-aircraft fire, so he
landed on the Bucharest–Târgoviște road, near Găești. They stopped a
car driven by a Dr Nicolae Decă, who took them to Văcărești, after which
he informed the local authorities that the Ceaușescus were going toward
Târgoviște. The Ceaușescus took another car and told its driver,
Nicolae Petrișor, to drive them to Târgoviște. During the trip, the
Ceaușescus heard news of the revolution on the car radio (by then the
revolutionaries had taken control of the state media), causing Ceaușescu
to angrily denounce the revolution as a coup d'état. Petrișor took the
couple to an agricultural centre near Târgoviște, where they were locked
in an office and later arrested by soldiers from a local army
The
Ceaușescus were executed at 2:50 p.m. local time at Military Unit UM
01417 from Târgoviște on 25 December 1989. The execution was carried out
by a firing squad consisting of eight paratroop regiment soldiers
brought in by two helicopters from the Boteni base: Captain Ionel Boeru,
Sergeant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cîrlan, and five
other non-commissioned officers who were selected from 20 volunteers.
Before
the execution, Nicolae Ceaușescu declared, "We could have been shot
without having this masquerade!" The Ceaușescus' hands were tied by four
soldiers before the execution. Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote that Elena
Ceaușescu screamed, "You sons of bitches!" as she was led outside and
lined up against the wall, while Nicolae Ceaușescu began singing a
fragment of "The Internationale" before the soldiers opened fire.
The
firing squad began shooting as soon as the two were in position against
a wall. The execution happened too quickly for the television crew
assigned to the trial and death sentence to videotape it in full; only
the last round of shots was filmed. In 2014, retired Captain Boeru told a
reporter for The Guardian newspaper that he believes that the shots he
fired from his rifle were solely responsible for the deaths of both of
the Ceaușescus, because, of the three soldiers in the firing squad, he
was the only one who remembered to switch his assault rifle to fire
fully automatic, and at least one member of the group hesitated to shoot
for several seconds. In 1990, a member of the National Salvation Front
reported that 120 bullets were found in the couple's bodies.
In
1989, Prime Minister Petre Roman told French television that the
execution was carried out quickly due to rumors that loyalists would
attempt to rescue the couple
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