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In Romania, the
people s courts
were first established in 1945 under Law
no. 312 and their
aim was to indict and punish
those responsible for the disastrous state of the country and war
crimes. Indeed, they carried out acts of justice in that many war
criminals were put on trial and convicted.
Two
such courts existed in Romania:
one in the capital Bucharest and another in Cluj, for the crimes
committed by Horthy s regime in Northern Transylvania. Some 2,700
people accused of war crimes were investigated, of whom 668 received
various convictions. The People s Court in Bucharest sentenced 187
people, while that in Cluj convicted 481. The most famous case tried
by the Bucharest People s Court was that of Ion Antonescu, who led
the Romanian state between 1940 and 1944, alongside Mihai Antonescu,
Piky Vasiliu and Gheorghe Alexianu, all of whom were sentenced to
death on 17th
May 1946 and executed. 19 other defendants were convicted to
death in absentia, while
Nora Iuga, one of the most critically-acclaimed living writers, is the author of Hippodrome, a novel brought out by the Polirom Publishers in Bucharest. Having got her novel published, Nora Iuga said she was having a rest after that, writing poetry.
Poet, prose writer and translator Nora Iuga was born on January 4, 1931. She is a member of the PEN Club and a member of Romanian Writers' Union. Nora Iuga has got more than 20 volumes published so far, poetry and prose. Here are some of the titles of her works: I'm not the one to blame (1968), The Captivity of the Circle (1970), Opinions on Pain (1980), Heart as a Boxer's Punch (1982, 2000), The Sky Square (1986), The Night Typist (1996, 2010), The Dummies' hospital (1998, 2010), The Hump-backed Bus (2001, 2010), Party in Montrouge (2012), The Wet Dog is a willow tree (2013), Hear the brackets crying (2016), Leopold Bloom's Soap Bar (1993), The Sexagenarian and the Young Man (2000), Hara