Romania

ROMANIA

1428-1445 – Romania gypsy slaves. 1428 slaves had no rights and were sold as property. Gypsy slaves in Romania 1445 enslaved peasants. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1560-1800s – Kidnapped gypsy Roma slaves 1560. Sold as property 1652. 3 July 1753 gypsy slaves were the property of the state. Slavery gypsies Roma children were sold. Control over Roma slaves. Embroidery was done by Roma women. 150,000 gypsy slaves in 1820. Roma in 1837 were state slaves. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1851 – Dr M Gasto. Bill of sale of gypsy slaves in Moldavia 1851. Journal of the gypsy lore society series vol ii vo2 1923.

1851-55 – Sale of Moldavian gypsy slaves. Roma slavery and church slaves. Also  private owned slaves. 1851 gypsy slaves as property. Separation of gypsy slave children from their parents. 10 Dec 1853 abolished slavery in Moldavia, Wallachia. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1888-1891 – Gypsy slavery existed in Romania 1891, the enslavement of gypsies as vagrants and poor. Food shortage in 1888. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1912-1920 – 1912 estimates 7.2 million people in Romania. 1920 estimate of 16 million. 16.9 million in 1920. Romania’s first official census 18 million, with  262,501 gypsies. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1914-18 – Romania was ruled by a Royal family with Austro German connections. Romania remained neutral in August 1914. PM Ion Bratianu. In Dec 1915 Bertie Maw had been in the Romanian oil business before the war. After Romania entered the war on the Allied side in August 1916. In 1918 a Canadian Colonel Joseph Boyle was in Romania. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery (c)crown 2010 UK).

6 June 1918 – In Romania. Grey River Argus. Papers Past NZ.

31 March 1919 – In Romania, end Julian calendar 31 March 1919.Beginning Gregorian calendar 14 April 1919. (Ancestry March April 2007 p21).

August 1944 – King Michael of Romania carried out a coup against the reigning Fascist government and had begun negotiations with the Soviet Union to take Romania out of the war. Michael ordered all Germans out of Romania. The Russians moved in and occupied Romania. (Espionage ©1995 Wolkman).

14 Jan 1945 – Bucharest Romania 80,000 people were taken away to their deaths. Frank Wisner was head of the OSS mission in Bucharest. The cold war between the Soviet Union and US began that day? Imposing Soviet Communism on eastern Europe by force. The US had a new enemy. Russia consolidated their control over eastern Europe. The same training that had taken the Jews to their slaughter was now being used by the Soviet Union to transport people by the hundreds of thousands to KGB execution cellars or slave camps in Siberia. (Espionage ©1995 Volkman).

March 1945 – Communist Russia took over Romania and the government fled into exile. Into a network of prisons were dragged thousands of Romanians 282,000 Romanians were seized and deported to Siberia, more than 190,000 of then would die in slave camps. In September 1945 the OSS mission was withdrawn. (Espionage ©1995 E Volkman).

1946-47 – Romania 1946 a Soviet plot to assassinate the King. The Soviets wanted to eliminate the Soviet Colonel. His car was mysteriously showered with hand grenades in Jan 1947. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

Mid 1960s – Saudi Arabia’s Yamani did a barter deal with Romania trading oil for goods. Saudi Arabia marketing oil with the Communist bloc, many objected. (Yamani ©1988 J Robinson).

1968 – Autumn the CIA recruited colonel Ion Iacobescu, deputy head of the Paris station of the Romanian foreign intel service DGIE. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

4 March 1977 – 1,570 killed Bucharest. Timeline of earthquakes.

1980s – Joseph Rothschild. Romanian gypsies were the poorest. Tortures are cruel, gypsy women were sexually enslaved in harems. Government abduct gypsy children as beggars or vagabonds into special schools. By the end of the 1980s Romania had become the Ethiopia of Europe. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1980s – South China Morning Post. Ikea paid millions to Romania’s Communists in the 1980s. The Guardian. 24 July 2014.

1987-1990 – In 1987 a London group estimated 760,000 gypsies in Romania, could be up to 2 million. Gypsy leaders said in 1992 the gypsy population was 2.3 million. 1990s some gypsy political parties surfaced. Government complicity in anti-Roma violence in 1990. (A history of the gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1989 – The secret police, the Securitate, ran the sex slave trade, calling it prostitution, willing or not. Police corruption. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).

1989-1991 – 31 May 1991 pogroms against gypsies in Romania, human rights and poverty. Gypsy orphans and poverty. 1989 Romanian orphanages 100,000 children. 1991 laws selling orphans and babies. Gypsies were persecuted by the police. (A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

Jan 1990 – Roma gypsies from Romania. Networks sex trafficking Romanians into Turkey. Begging rings were trafficking Romanian children into Italy. Four out of five children in Romanian orphanages and were Roma gypsies. (A crime so monstrous. E Benjamin Skinner ©2008 UK).

24 March 1991 – Kathleen Hunt. The Romanian baby bazaar. The New York Times mag.

28 Nov 1992 – Rescuing Romania’s orphans. The New York Times. Howard Alstein.

1999 – University of Wisconsin board of regents. Romanian orphanages. Monkey experiments, human deprivation, in Romanian orphanages.

2002 – Human rights watch. Hopes betrayed. Trafficking of women and girls to post conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina for forced sex. New York Human rights watch .

3 Jan 2007 – Along with Romania, Bulgaria joined the EU to complete enlargement to include all former Warsaw pact countries except the Soviet Union, extending the EU eastern frontier to the Black sea. (Chch Press NZ The Times UK ).

6 March 2007 – Fed police bust Romanian drug ring, cocaine on the rise. AAP General news wire. Australia.

7 March 2007 – Romanian link as drugs, cash and gems withheld in raid. Coke swoops. Tony Wilson. The Gold Coast bulletin Southport QLD Australia.

20 April 2009 – Gangs force drug imports Romanian crooks in Postal scam. Keith Moor. Herald Sun Melbourne Vic Smuggling into Australia.

2010 – Girls kidnapped from Romanian orphanages and sold for sex in Turkey. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

28 June 2013 – www.balkans.com GlaxoSmithKline to sell its drug plant in Brasov Romania. Ovidiu Posisca.

3 Sept 2013 – Roamania insider. GlaxoSmithKline factory Brasov Romania.

16 May 2014 – Italian Camorra mafia in Romania. Saudi press agency. Camorra Neopolitan branch of the Italian mafia, unit in Romania.

6 June 2014 – www.balkans.com Drugs, Smuggling and sex slavery to be included in Romanias GDP calculations. The invisible economy.

13 June 2014 – Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to cut 236 jobs in Romania. Its second largest drug factory in Romania by the end of 2015. Brasov factory director Mariana Cisadru. (Jason deBruyn bizjournals.com Triangle businesss journal).

15 June 2014 – AIB fires women over Romanian mafia links. Michael O’Farell. Mail on Sunday.

16 June 2014 – www.balkans.com GlaxoSmithKline, Brasov factory in Romania.

24 Sept 2014 – Yahoo news UK. Romania ex Communist prison chief on trial. US news and world report. Lt Col Alexandru Visiescu, the Ramnku sarat prison from 1956 to 1963. Daily Mail.

7 Oct 2014 –  Romanian homeless man finds Eur 300,000 of the mafia’s counterfeit money in a bucket. Romanian insider.com.

21 Oct 2014 – Romania Nuremberg court. Macleans. Trial Communist terror will face justice. Investigator Radu Preda.

22 Oct 2014 – Romania Communist bread returns as prime product. Romania Insider. Subsistence bread.

22 Oct 2014 – Romania warrant for Communist era prison boss. Focus now. Bucharest. Brutal Communist era prison camp.

23 Oct 2014 – Senior Romanian politician resigns in corruption scandal. EurActiv. EU concerns rampant high level corruption in Romania and Bulgaria. The EU’s poorest members.

29 Oct 2014 – Romania peasant blouse was hidden away during Communist times. Minneapolis Star tribune. The garment dates back centuries, out of sight during the Communist era as govt deny rural traditions.

6 Nov 2014 – Feds nab one of two Romanian mafia figures. The Indsider. Lefayette LA AP. US marshals seize more than $1 million on Craiglist and other classified advertising websites.

15 Nov 2014 – Thousands of Romanians protest against PM Victor Ponta. Times of India. Bucharest. Scandal over Romanians prevented from voting from overseas.

17 Nov 2014 – German in Romanian presidential elections. Irish Times. Romanian embassy in Dublin to vote in elections.

18 Nov 2014 – Wanted. Nicolae Popescu a leader of an international organised crime syndicate, cyber fraud scheme. Dumitru Daniel Bosogioiu, also a  Romanian. Interpol red notices. FBI news bog, press release.