How can we tolerate this happening in Europe? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8425001.stm

The images are not only shocking, they are dramatically similar to those shot right after the fall of Ceausescu’s regime 20 years ago. Wasn’t one of the conditions of accession to the European Union that Romania had to provide better conditions to its state orphanages? Hasn’t the EU sent millions of Euros to Romania (much of that money lost to corruption….) to help them tackle this and other problems? I understand if roads and telecommunications are a priority, but these are human beings we’re talking about here! Defenseless and with no hope of leading a normal life.

I mean no disrespect to my many Romanian friends, and I know that every country has its problems. Especially when you have to deal with a legacy of a communist and closed-to-the-world rule. But ignoring it won’t make it go away. This needs the good people of Romania to be so enraged over it, that it’s on the agenda of every candidate to the next elections. Sadly they just had elections, and I don’t recall this being on anyone’s agenda. Shame on you Romania, shame on us Europe.

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