WikiLeaks publishes Romania related document

WikiLeaks has published a Romania related document. The telegram was sent by the Bucharest US embassy on April 2006.

The document makes mention of Romania’s international adoption process and a letter sent by the head of the Romanian Office for Adoption, Teodora Berţi.

The working group in charge of the case showed in the report that none of the 1.092 children identified in the pending petitions were available for international adoption.

In this context, the US embassy’s document advocates for US pressure on the Romanian government to establish a legal framework that would allow international adoptions.

According to WikiLeaks, the telegram is confidential and the document is signed Taubman. During December 2005 – December 2008, Nicholas F. Taubman was the US ambassador in Romania.

Hundreds of thousands of already published documents

Thus, the WikiLeaks website continues its series of revealing secret or confidential international diplomatic documents.

Almost 250.000 secret State Department messages were sent by WikiLeaks to five of the world’s biggest publications.

In July 2010, WikiLeaks posted on its site 70.000 documents from the Afghanistan war, which was considered to be the largest document leak in the US Army’s history up to that moment.

Later, WikiLeaks published almost 400.000 secrete documents of the US Army, referring to the fact that US commanding officers supposedly had know about Iraqi forces abusing prisoners, but didn’t do anything about it.

The documents described the torture, abuse and the execution of some Iraqi prisoners by Iraqi security forces, during 2004-2009.

Also, the documents suggest that hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed at US control points and other 15.000 civilians had lost their lives in then previously unknown incidents.

Translated by: Ciocănel Tudor

MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University