By ALISON MUTLER
FILE This is a Tuesday, July 30, 2013 file photo of retired Lt. Col. Alexandru Visinescu, 87, as he looks at journalists outside his home in Bucharest. Romanian prosecutors on Tuesday Sept. 3, 2013 charged the commander of a Communist-era prison with genocide, the first Romanian to face the charge since 1989. Alexandru Visinescu, 87, appeared before prosecutors to be presented with the charges. Between 1956 and 1963, he ran the Ramnicu Sarat prison where the pre-Communist elite and intellectuals were incarcerated. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda. File)
FILE This is a Tuesday, July 30, 2013 file photo of retired Lt. Col. Alexandru Visinescu, 87, as he looks at journalists outside his home in Bucharest. Romanian prosecutors on Tuesday Sept. 3, 2013 charged the commander of a Communist-era prison with genocide, the first Romanian to face the charge since 1989. Alexandru Visinescu, 87, appeared before prosecutors to be presented with the charges. Between 1956 and 1963, he ran the Ramnicu Sarat prison where the pre-Communist elite and intellectuals were incarcerated. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda. File)
