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(en) Miners Overwhelm Police in Romania
From
Mark Laskey <kronstadt@juno.com>
Date
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:54:28 -0500
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"WE NO LONGER FACE A PROTEST, BUT A BRUTAL ATTACK ON AUTHORITY."
---- Emil
Constantinescu, Romanian President
COSTESTI, ROMANIA -- On Thursday, January 21st, striking Romanian miners,
backed by residents, used stones and clubs to force their way through
riot police in a ravine, and swept closer to Bucharest.
State television said that at least 80 people had been hit by flying
rocks, or were suffering from tear gas. Most were police officers.
It was the second time in three days that the miners, who are
demanding pay increases and a reversal of decisions to close uneconomical
mines, had overwhelmed cordons of police in central Romania's hilly
countryside.
The miners, who have a reputation for militancy dating from communist
times, have confronted President Emil Constantinescu with his worst
crisis since he took office in 1996.
"We have to go to Bucharest. We shall go on," a miners' leader, Miron
Cozma, told some of his constituents near the dismantled barricade.
In Bucharest, Interior Minister Gavril Dejeu resigned.
"We no longer face a protest but rather a brutal attack on security
forces and on state authority," Constatinescu told leaders of parties
from the centrist government and the leftist and nationalist opposition
parties.
Cozma served a brief jail term last year for leading violent protests
in the early 1990's, leaving seven people dead and prompting the
resignation of Romania's first post-communist government.
News reports said Cozma had been cheered by thousands of residents
shouting anti-government slogans along the route. (Reuters)
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