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On August 10th gendarmes broke up a protest in Piata Victoria in front of Palatul Victoria, the seat of Romania’s government. The violent intervention relied on teargas, water cannons and rubber truncheons. Riveted to our televisions, we watched the nightmare unroll live, aware that there was no way to wake up from history in the making, or from the terrible cleavage in Romanian society with its own long history. We wanted the eyes of the world fixed on Bucharest, and, more than that, we wanted foreign press and political analysts to cover the story and reflect on it in depth. W
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