A woman lights candles by gravestones during a religious service for those killed in the anti-communist uprising 25 years ago, at the Heroes cemetery, in Timisoara, Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014.

With the clinical detachment only a county morgue chief can muster, Dr. Milan Dressler spreads the pictures of the dead across his cluttered desk and tries to explain how one of the greatest horrors ...

Protests which led to the collapse of communism in Romania, and the death of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, began on December 16th 1989. Show more Protests which led to the collapse of communism in ...

AFP - Scores of people on Wednesday re-enacted rallies which ignited the uprising 20 years ago that brought down communist rule in Romania. In Timisoara, in the west of the country, people gathered in ...