The trial of the perpetrators of the Jassy massacre of 1941, during which 14,000 Jews were killed, will be reopened within three weeks, Gen. Mihail Lascar, Rumanian Minister of War, announced, following a three-hour debate in which the government’s inaction was criticized. The debate, which was led by Dr. Edward Manulescu, Jewish deputy, broke into a discussion of the budget.
Dr. Manulescu, who is a representative of the Union of Rumanian Jews, declared that the government’s replies to questions ##ised by the Jews were unsatisfactory and criticized the military authorities’ handling of the case, charging “fascist saboteurs” interfered with the courts. He was joined by Social Democratic deputy Dimitru Pop who demanded that the War Ministry investigate who was responsible for the sabotage.
Pleading with the members of parliament “not to consign the facts to oblivion”, Dr. Manulescu produced documents proving that a number of officers who had been tried and acquitted were actually participants in the massacre. He described the scenes of horror and death in Jassy end on death trains sent out of the city. Pop demanded a revision of the indictment against the army personnel involved because the courts martial had been “systematically hampered.”
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