Word: berindei
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...There are reports of deaths, but we don't have any figures so far because the entire area has been virtually isolated...by the security forces," Berindei said...
Anti-government protests apparently began after hundreds of ethnic Hungarians formed a human chain Friday night to prevent the eviction of the Rev. Laszio Toekes, a Reformed Church clergyman who has championed their rights, Berindei said...
Toekes had been harassed for months by Romanian authorities. He and his wife, who is pregnant, had remained inside his church since masked assailants tried to attack him in his neighboring apartment November 2, Berindei said, again quoting witnesses...
Several thousand people, most of them ethnic Romanian students and workers, protested in downtown Timisoara on Saturday and briefly occupied the Communist Party headquarters, breaking windows and smashing furniture, Berindei said...
Protest continued Sunday, then police and army units intervened and shots were fired, Berindei said...