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DNA tests confirmed Romania's late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried two decades ago in a Bucharest grave, forensic experts said on Wednesday, lifting lingering doubt over the ruler's burial place.
DNA tests confirmed Romania's late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried two decades ago in a Bucharest grave, forensic experts said on Wednesday, lifting lingering doubt over the ruler's burial place.
The family had threatened to sue the Romanian state if the remains – exhumed on July 21, some 20 years after their deaths – had not belonged to the Ceausescus.
Mr Dermengiu said in the case of Elena, there was not enough material available for a conclusive test.
The remains of the Ceausescus were exhumed in July following requests by their daughter Zoia, who died of lung cancer in 2006, her husband Mircea Oprean and Ceausescu's son Valentin.
Mr Oprean was quoted by local media as saying at the time that he saw his father-in-law's coat riddled with bullets: "After what I saw, I tend to believe they are them."
Zoia first asked for the identities of the bodies to be checked soon after the executions but the process was delayed for years as it proceeded through Romania's bureaucratic legal system following the anti-communist 1989 revolution.
Anti-communists dub it the "stolen revolution", accusing an elite with close ties to the former regime of preserving their powers by snapping up the nation's wealth in the chaotic aftermath.
Those nostalgic for the old times say the shift to democracy and European Union membership has robbed them of stability, jobs and security.
Ceausescu was ranked both as Romania's most loved and most hated figure of the last century and his sympathisers gather at the grave every year on Christmas Day.
Petre Ignatencu, who has launched a 1,000-member movement to try to rebuild a communist party in Romania – where the Communist Party was banned in 1990 – told Reuters he was glad the speculation was now over and the country could move on.
"As of now, one can scrap fairy tales that Ceausescu is alive or that he escaped," he said.
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