Radio Romania International
In Romania, the people's courts were first established in 1945 under Law no. 312 and their aim was to indict and punish those responsible for the disastrous state of the country and war crimes. Indeed, they carried out acts of justice in that many war criminals were put on trial and convicted. Two such courts existed in Romania: one in the capital Bucharest and another in Cluj, for the crimes committed by Horthy's regime in Northern Transylvania. Some 2,700 people accused of war crimes were investigated, of whom 668 received various convictions. The People's Court in Bucharest sentenced 187 ...
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