February 1999 Mineriad

When

16 Feb 1999 – 17 Feb 1999

Kind

Protest

Deaths

1

Coordinates

43.78° N, 23.81° E

Description

Protests in Romania

Injured

170

Participants

2500

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Protests in Romania

The February 1999 Mineriad was the last of the six mineriads that occurred in Romania. It began on 16 February 1999, when 2,000–2,500 miners from the Jiu Valley left for Bucharest in around 50 buses as a protest against the 18-year long jail sentence given in absentia to Miron Cozma, the "leader" of the miners, for his actions in the September 1991 Mineriad against the Romanian Government.

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