Former Romanian president Ion Iliescu and 13 other officials have been ordered to stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the deadly crackdown on a Bucharest protest in 1990, the prosecutors office said Tuesday.
Four people were killed after Iliescu called in tens of thousands of club-wielding miners to help police put down the demonstration, just months after the execution of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in December 1989.