Romania: Camp commander accused of 103 deaths


September 18, 2013 at 5:30p.m.

Romania: Camp commander accused of 103 deaths

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A Romanian institute urged prosecutors today to bring genocide charges against the Communist commander of a former Romanian labor camp, saying he was responsible for 103 deaths. Ion Ficior, 85, was deputy commander then commander of the Periprava labor camp from 1958 to 1963. The camp in a remote Danube Delta village near the Black Sea held up to 2,000 prisoners