When Radu Codrescu (name changed for privacy reasons), the protagonist of Our Borders, told me what he had seen at Orşova in 1982, he was a little concerned that people would not believe his story.
Michael Domniței, who himself had done time for trying to flee Romania in the ‘80s, and who managed to cross the border in 1984, has kept all these years a newspaper clip that confirms that Radu’s account is part of a larger story of longstanding repression and murder.
The clip is from The Oregonian, reprinting a story published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1988.
Michael Domniței now lives in the United States.