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Liviu Cornel Babeș (10 September 1942 Brașov – 2 March 1989 Brașov) was a
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Brașoveanul care și-a dat foc în ’89 rămîne în anonimat
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Liviu Babeș, comemorat la Poiana Brașov
Două decenii de uitare - Eroul de la Brașov
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Liviu Cornel Babeș (10 September 1942 Brașov – 2 March 1989 Brașov) was a Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
n electrician and painter who committed suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and s ...
by self-immolation as a political protest.
Death
On 2 March 1989 Babeș set himself on fire on the Bradu ski slope atPoiana Brașov
Poiana Brașov (, german: Schulerau; hu, Brassópojána) is a neighborhood of Brașov and a Romanian ski resort.
After the 2010s modernization, the ski area has expanded from to and the slope’s length was increased from to . Most slopes n ...
as a sign of protest against the communist regime. He left the message: ''„Stop Mörder! Brașov = Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
"''. He was taken to the Brașov county hospital, where he died two hours later.
In Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
, according to Law no. 93, on 3 June 2007, Liviu Cornel Babeș was declared a hero.
Place names
* A street in Brașov has been named after him.See also
*Brașov Rebellion
Brașov (, , ; german: Kronstadt; hu, Brassó; la, Corona; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the administrative centre of Brașov County.
According to the latest Romanian census ( 2011), Brașov has a po ...
* Jan Palach
Jan Palach (; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 in ...
* Jan Zajíc
* Ryszard Siwiec
* Romas Kalanta
Romas Kalanta (22 February 1953 – 14 May 1972) was a 19-year-old Lithuanian high school student known for his public self-immolation protesting Soviet regime in Lithuania. Kalanta's death provoked the largest post-war riots in Lithuania and in ...
* Oleksa Hirnyk
Oleksa Mykolajovych Hirnyk ( uk, Олекса Миколайович Гiрник, Oleksa Mykolajovyč Hirnyk; 28 March 1912 – 21 January 1978) was a Ukrainian Soviet dissident, an engineer by profession, who burned himself to death as an act of ...
* Alain Escoffier
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* Kostas Georgakis
Kostas Georgakis ( el, Κώστας Γεωργάκης) (23 August 194819 September 1970) was a Greek student of geology, who in the early hours of 19 September 1970, set himself ablaze in Matteotti square in Genoa in a fatal protest against th ...
* List of political self-immolations
Notes
External links
www.liviubabes.ro
Brașoveanul care și-a dat foc în ’89 rămîne în anonimat
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Cotidianul
image:Cotidianul.png, The logo used between 2003 and 2007
''Cotidianul'' (meaning ''The Daily'' in English) is a Romanian language newspaper published in Bucharest, Romania.
History and profile
Founded by Ion Raţiu, ''Cotidianul'' was first ...
'', 2 martie 2007
Liviu Babeș, comemorat la Poiana Brașov
Două decenii de uitare - Eroul de la Brașov
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