Cighid was a children's home in Romania where many orphans and disabled youths were held in inhumane conditions. The extent of the abuse was exposed in March 1990, shortly after the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime.
Cighid was a children's home in Romania where many orphans and disabled youths were held in inhumane conditions. The extent of the abuse was exposed in March 1990, shortly after the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime.
==Background== In 1966, the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu decreed a ban on contraception and abortion with the aim of increasing Romania's population. At the age of three years the children were medically examined. Disabled and orphaned children were in huge numbers brought into homes like Cighid or psychiatric hospitals, where they lived under inhumane conditions. Many children, especially those with disabilities, died within weeks of their arrival due to starvation, exposure or infections caused by lack of hygiene. At the time, this was labelled "dying without being killed". The local graveyard has 137 graves of victims.
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