For a fee a little higher than the minimum salary, numerous Romanian clerks in several countries’ embassies in Bucharest agree to be humiliated and exploited. Some decided to speak out after being "dismissed". Others still tolerate, waiting for a wonder from the Romanian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) or from the Bucharest Employment Department. We will show today the "diplomatic" manner in which the Romanians are treated in an embassy that represents some people that want to be our friends.

A few weeks ago, three Romanian clerks working for the Indian Embassy have been "dismissed". We use the inverted comas because they couldn’t have benefited from such an "honor" since they have been working illegally for some years because the Indians didn’t want to reach to any working agreements with them. We have to say the "employees" didn’t work as gardeners or drivers, but they were consular officers and commercial assistants. Jurnalul National managed to reach the three clerks and got them to talk. They feared at first saying it would be very hard for them to get another job in similar positions. They decided to talk eventually hoping that the situation in other embassies in which illegal things happen would normalize.

The Fight for Dignity We will quote approximately the entire statements of the three former employees of the Indian Embassy saying they "take full responsibility for the truth" in their statements. "The time spent at the Indian Embassy represented a permanent fight for keeping our dignity, and we had to accept insults, offensive addressing manners, obvious sexually related hints, extended schedules, and requests for some services for the Indian personnel that weren’t our job. This happened very often. We have addressed to the Embassy’s office about these breakings of our rights and the abusive attitude of the Indian personnel