Children Taken As Tribute
11 February 2004
11 february 2004
Children Taken As Tribute
by Sorin Rosca Stanescu
I will not defend the Nastase Government in this column. But I will
defend my country. The revelations disclosed by Traian Basescu are
extremely scandalous and will go around the entire world, no doubt about
it. They show that precisely those who judge us, put us in a corner and
then torment us are those who exercised pressure on the Romanian
Government to break the moratorium. It is an act of unbelievable
cynicism to force the authorities of a country to sign a moratorium,
then to use pressure and influence traffic on the same authorities such
as the moratorium should be broken and then to punish an entire country
for submitting to this modern form of slavery mainly due to political
blackmail. And in the end Emma Nicholson shrugs and says serenely "if
you did not want to say yes, you should not have said so."
It is stunning to see how many are those who put the Romanian government
officials under pressure, either directly, or through their embassies.
Not only the number, but also the prominence of the public figures
involved is alarming. The scandal is only beginning. It will go around
the planet, and the shock wave will hit many heads. And maybe thus the
poor tormented country will escape alive.
(C) Ziua
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