22 Facts About Dumitru Mazilu

Dumitru Mazilu was born on 24 June 1934 and is a Romanian politician.

Dumitru Mazilu had a key role in the events of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 and in exposing the human rights abuses of the Ceausescu regime.

From 1965 to 1966, Mazilu served as director of Securitate school in Baneasa.

From 1965 to 1968, Dumitru Mazilu he was reportedly responsible for investigating abuses and irregularities committed during the regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.

In 1985, Dumitru Mazilu became involved in discussions of human rights and of the youth of the world.

Nicolae Ceausescu was informed by the secret services that Dumitru Mazilu intended to publish the report and forbade him to leave the country and therefore prevented him from presenting the report to the United Nations Organization.

Dumitru Mazilu furthered criticized Ceausescu's agricultural policy of destroying traditional farming centers in an effort to modernize Romania's farming industry with the introduction of more modern agricultural centers, claiming that this compromised peasant farmers as their farms were seen by Ceausescu's administration as "breeding of bourgeois liberalism that still forms of private property".

From 1986 to 1989, Dumitru Mazilu was placed under house arrest as a result of his criticisms of Ceausescu's handling of human rights.

Dumitru Mazilu wrote a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations stating that he had been hospitalized twice, being forced to withdraw from a summit on 1 December 1987, stating that he would not withdraw his report.

However, despite being under house arrest, Dumitru Mazilu was able to publish a clandestine report in Geneva in April 1989.

Brucan and Iliescu believed that Communism should be kept in place, but Ceausescu should be removed, whereas Dumitru Mazilu believed that Communism was inherently flawed and was in need of replacement by Capitalism and Petre Roman believed that Socialism was Communism's natural replacement.

In March 1991, Dumitru Mazilu was reportedly attacked in Geneva as he was preparing another report critical of the government.

Dumitru Mazilu obtained his previously held role which he had lost in 1986 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dumitru Mazilu returned to diplomacy, becoming the head of Romania's diplomatic mission in the Philippines.

Dumitru Mazilu was appointed as ambassador to the international organizations in Vienna, and later, Romania's representative to OSCE from 1994 to 1997.

Presently, Dumitru Mazilu holds a position as a Professor consultant at the University of Bucharest and is the author of several books.

Dumitru Mazilu was appointed to the leadership of the Institute of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989.

In November 2013, Dumitru Mazilu was interviewed in the General Prosecutor's Office as a further investigation of the events of 1989 in light of accusations surrounding Iliescu.

Dumitru Mazilu has been awarded the titles of Doctor Honoris Causa of both Romanian and foreign educational institutions, namely: American College of Switzerland ; Alexandru Ioan Cuza Police Academy of Bucharest ; Albert Schweitzer International University of Geneva ; Honorary Member of the academic community of the George Bacovia University of Bacau; Doctor of Ovidius University of Constanta.

Dumitru Mazilu is a member of the Central European Science and Art Academy ; member of the Balkan Academy of Sciences ; member of the International Diplomatic Academy ; associate member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.

In recognition of his contribution to the defense of human rights during the years of the communist dictatorship in Romania, Dumitru Mazilu was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the International Diplomatic Academy in 2003.

Dumitru Mazilu has published 43 books and over 500 specialized studies and articles.