Raluca Ursachi on the unveiling of the past in Romania

Raluca Ursachi, a doctoral student at the Sorbonne University in Paris, considers the decision of the Romanian Constitutional Court to limit the work of the national council responsible for the Securitate archives (CNSAS). "The main reason for the outlawing on the CNSAS is that it works as an 'exceptional instance of judgement', which goes against the fundamental law. ... The fundamental law and indeed all Romanian laws in general, have made no room for the exceptional justice demanded by the Revolution. The crimes of the regime are dictated, the former members of the Nomenklatura and the Securitate continue to occupy the foreground of the political and economic scene and the bloody incidents of December 1989 have never been elucidated. From a legal standpoint, the Revolution never took place. And if wee take a closer look at the past of the guardians of the temple of legality, you do wonder if, apart from the 1,000 victims, (whose deaths have still not been understood), the Revolution did really take place..."

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