Bărăgan deportations

When

1951

Kind

Expulsion or deportation

Coordinates

46.00° N, 25.00° E

Description

deportation of population in Romania in the 1950s

Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.

Forced internal relocation in communist Romania, 1951–1956

The Bărăgan deportations were a forced internal relocation of civilians carried out by the communist regime of Romania between 1951 and 1956. On the night of 17–18 June 1951, immediately after Orthodox Pentecost Sunday, the authorities removed 12,791 families, numbering 40,320 people according to Interior Ministry records and about 44,000 according to other accounts, from a strip of territory about 25 km (15 mi) deep…

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