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The
execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife told us little
about Romania's tragedy. But later I found babies who had
AIDS due to blood transfusions. Thousands of children had
been abandoned. In a former military hospital the inmates,
some of them former dissidents, had various forms of mental
illness. There was no treatment and they had begun to burn
the window frames for heating. At the leper colony on the
Danube Delta the residents were old people who had been
banished in their youth. These images of avoidable tragedy
were published round the world. The Guardian called them
a portrait of the Auschwitz of the 1990s.
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