Hungary took the unprecedented action of cosponsoring the U.N. resolution while the rest of the Warsaw Pact broke with Romania and abstained from the vote. Soviet leader Gorbachev has publicly criticized and warned Ceausescu for human rights violations. Ceausescu presses on with his program of systemization hoping to destroy nearly 13.000 villages and force cruel relocation of Romanian families. Some 20.000 Romanian citizens have taken refuge in neighboring Hungary. leaving family members behind. Romanian officials have recently constructed a barbedwire fence. reminiscent of the Berlin Wall. to try to stop refugees. Beatings. arrests. and harassment continue for anyone who questions Ceausescu. Even former Communist leaders have been placed under house arrest for their criticism of Ceausescu.
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