Timisoara fighting as revolution comes to Romania
- Title
- Timisoara fighting as revolution comes to Romania
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 25 Dec 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:03:25
- Description
- Gareth Furby reports from Timisoara in Romania on sporadic fighting continuing against security forces of the deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Local guide speaks as they tour the city and gunfire is heard nearby, he says around 4000 have died in the town; they are fired on at a radio station where a reporter speaks of the danger and hopes for the future.
- Contributors
- Gareth Furby
- Keywords
- Deaths; Revolutions; Demonstrations; Communist Party; Homicide; Dictatorship; Romania; Nicolae Ceausescu; Timisoara; Elena Ceausescu
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