A World Without Walls 2010
”An International Conference on Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and Globalization in an Interdependent World”

(Berlin; November 6th - 10th, 2010)

Human Rights Introduction

May 7, 1989

The communal elections farce

28-gr.jpg
Communal elections are held under intense criticism of their democratic nature. GDR dissidents strive to uncover fraud in an election that produces 98,85 support for the SED. Eventually, independent observers uncover fraud. The discovery undermines the SED and adds significant energy to the civil rights movement.