Romanian Ex General Chitac Not To Pay Compensations To Victims Of 1989 Revolution

The Appeals Court ruling can be challenged with the Supreme Court.

Romania's Defense Ministry was also compelled to pay compensations to the victims of the revolution, alongside Chitac, and paid the compensations in full back in 2005.

Chitac appealed the rulings in 2005, but the trial was suspended until the finalization of the criminal case in which he was investigated.

On October 16, 2008, the Supreme Court sentenced former high-ranking generals Athanasie Stanculescu and Chitac to 15 years in prison each for aggravated manslaughter during the 1989 revolution.

Chitac and Stanculescu, both aged 81, were first sentenced in 1999 on aggravated murder charges for ordering troops to fire on demonstrators in Timisoara city, western Romania.

In December 17-20, 1989, security forces fired at civilians, killing 72 people and injuring 253. A woman was run over by a tank in the city and 43 people were severely beaten by security forces.

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