Lustratia in Romania (vazuta la NY)

Photo by Petrut Calinescu for the New York Times

E ciudat cum cineva din afara poate sa iti arate mizeria din propria ograda cu o luciditate chirurgicala si o simplitate debordanta. Mare articol mare azi in NY Times despre problema pe care o are Romania in curatarea serviciilor secrete si deconspirarea marilor securisti. Spicuiesc:

BUCHAREST, Romania — Communism is gone and democracy is well implanted in the countries of the old Warsaw Pact, but the Soviet era’s security services are still sending shudders through the region nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“In ’89, only Communism was killed, but the former state security and Communist Party chiefs took the economic power,” said Marius Oprea, president of the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism, a Romanian government group.

But nowhere has the struggle between the former secret services and the forces for change been as intense as in Romania, now poised to join the European Union.

While the heads of the secret services have been changed and the services have been reorganized, much of the rank and file remains, now with ties to a powerful business elite.

Many of the most powerful businessmen in Romania have links to the Securitate, even if they deny having benefited from such relationships — something that is, by its nature, difficult to prove.

Silvian Ionescu, the country’s top environmental official, was a former high-ranking Securitate officer who became wealthy after Communism’s fall through various business deals

But the security services have not yet turned over all of the files, and there is widespread suspicion that the most important ones are being withheld.

Si concluzia, vine cu atat mai dezamagitoare: “There are always new files appearing,” he [Turianu] said, pausing to pour a visitor a glass of Scotch with shaking hands. He said the process will continue until those who were adults before 1989 are dead. “Then,” he said, “nature will take its course.”

Ma intreb de ce dreptatea pare ca se face in ultima vreme doar prin moartea naturala a vinovatilor? Vezi Pinochet, de exemplu. Foarte trist, foarte trist, si un mare semnal de alarma pentru justitia din Romania si nu numai.