Refusal of the government to follow the Proclamation of Timișoara
Goals
Removal of former Communist Party members from power
Methods
Demonstration
Revolt
Civil disobedience
Vandalism
Parties
Anti-government protesters Opposition parties:
Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party[1]
National Liberal Party[2]
Romanian Social Democratic Party[3]
Government of Romania
Jiu Valley miners
Romanian Police
Political support:
National Salvation Front
Lead figures
Marian Munteanu Corneliu Coposu Radu Câmpeanu Sergiu Cunescu
Miron Cozma Ion Iliescu Petre Roman
Casualties
Death(s)
6 (official) over 100 (claims by opposition press)
Injuries
746–1,000
The Golaniad (Romanian: Golaniadapronounced[ɡolaniˈada], from the word golan meaning "hoodlum") was a protest in Romania in the University Square, Bucharest. It was initiated by students and professors at the University of Bucharest.
The Golaniad started in April 1990, before the election of 20 May 1990, which was the first election after the Romanian Revolution of December 1989. Their main demand was that former leading members of the Communist Party should be banned from standing in elections.
The Golaniad (Romanian: Golaniada pronounced [ɡolaniˈada], from the word golan meaning "hoodlum") was a protest in Romania in the University Square, Bucharest...
and members of the Securitate grew rapidly to become what was called the Golaniad. Peaceful demonstrations degenerated into violence, prompting the intervention...
gang located in Iasi Golani, anti-communist protestors, from the Romanian Golaniad a US-built version of the IMI Galil rifle. This disambiguation page lists...
The June 1990 Mineriad turned deadly after university students, the "Golaniads", held a months long protest against the participation of ex-PCR and Securitate...
Its main purpose was to subvert the opposition, particularly during the Golaniad mass protests in Bucharest. The agency was also involved in the violent...
eventually adopted the name golani and the movement came to be known as the Golaniad. [citation needed] After Iliescu and the FSN won a landslide victory in...
to the resulted in the downfall of the communist government. 1990 The Golaniad a protest in Romania in April by Bucharest students who demanded a non-communist...
opposition parties. The protest became ongoing mass demonstration known as the Golaniad. The protesters accused the FSN of being made up of former Communists and...
Romania (like himself). The pejorative term for this demonstration was the Golaniad (from the Romanian golan, rascal). On 13 June, an attempt of the authorities...
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the National Salvation Front government in 1990 (in what became known as Golaniad); these were violently suppressed by the miners of Valea Jiului – the Mineriad...
Iliescu is elected President of the National Salvation Front. 22 April – Golaniad: After an electoral rally of PNȚCD, some of the demonstrators barricade...
messages in front of live cameras. In early 1990, he rallied with the Golaniad protesters in University Square, expressing his opposition to the post-communist...
of the FSN and its leader Ion Iliescu, establishing contacts with the Golaniad protest movement (named after golani, "hoodlums", the word used by Iliescu...
protests against the ruling National Salvation Front (FSN), including the Golaniad public gathering that were ended by the June 1990 Mineriad. In July 1991...
Revolution" by opposing the crowds who were protesting the government (the Golaniad). As a reward, the miners were promised better wages and living conditions...
but he was replaced in June 1990 because he was a sympathiser of the Golaniad movement of University Square (he was the self-styled "ambassador of the...
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