Word: saids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mihnea Berindei, vice chair of the Paris-based Romanian League for Human Rights, said he had reports of police firing on the demonstrators in Timisoara...
...Shots were heard and there were injuries. Ambulances were seen rushing to and fro," he said, quoting witnesses...
...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...