Romanian President To Celebrate Fall Of Berlin Wall With Son Of Martyr Hero

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Monday before leaving for Berlin, Germany, to attend the events celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, that he decided to take along a young Romanian student whose mother was killed in the anti-communist revolution of 1989 in Romania.

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Basescu said he invited young student Arion Emil Banciu from Timisoara, western Romania, where the anti-communist revolution broke out back in 1989, to take part in the ceremonies in Berlin because he is the son of a martyr hero and therefore needs to know where the anti-communist riots began, as they probably paved way for the tragedy he ultimately experienced.

The head of state stressed that, if Germany, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia managed to oust communists without the shedding of blood, Romania, instead, was the only country whose "rulers, before and after the killing of late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, found a way to use propaganda" for the purpose of deploying soldiers on streets and killing over 1,600 people." Basescu added "those who took the helm of the country found it easy to keep using the army against terrorists."

Speaking about the fall of the Berlin Wall, the head of state highlighted the event marks, on the one hand, the beginning of the German reunification, and, on the other hand, the fall of the communist system.

According to Basescu, all former communist countries celebrate 20 years since the beginning of the revival of the Western world they had been part of before the Second World War broke out.

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