bbc:

Camelia Sucu knew that people had died on the night of the Romanian revolution when she saw the street cleaners scrubbing away the blood the following day.

She, along with thousands of others, had been in the square on 21 December 1989 demanding the end of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. She arrived in the afternoon with her mother and then-husband after watching Ceausescu's earlier speech on TV. The address was meant to win the public over, but descended into chaos.

As the night came, with protesters still chanting: "We want freedom, down with Ceausescu", it turned violent and shots were fired.

"Everybody was running," says Mrs Sucu. "I could hear the bullets and I could see the broken car windows.

"I remember being kind of scared, but also being together with all the other people - we encouraged each other."

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