Saturday, May 24, 2014

Beneath the streets of Romania's capital, a living hell

Deep under the streets of Bucharest - in Europe, in the 21st century - there is a network of tunnels and sewers that is home to hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse HIV and TB.
The streets gangs of Bucharest, who live in the sewers

You can travel to the heart of the EU from Bucharest's Gara du Nord, write Paraic O'Brien and Jim Wickens, but our journey will take us just a few metres.
On the surface, the newest member of the European club has worked hard to redefine itself. But there's another Romania, underground.
When Ceausescu fell there were tens of thousands of children in orphanages and in state "care" in Romania. But in 1990 a series of reports revealed what a nightmarish misnomer that was. Scenes of neglect and cruelty reminiscent of the concentration camps.
So what happened to those children?

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