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REFUGEES FROM TRANSNISTRIA CALLING ON VETERANS TO TAKE TO STREETS AGAINST GOVERNMENT

07 june, 2016
REFUGEES FROM TRANSNISTRIA CALLING ON VETERANS TO TAKE TO STREETS AGAINST GOVERNMENT The Movement of Refugees from Transnistria is calling on veterans of the 1992 armed conflict to come out on June 8-9 for actions of protest against the Moldovan Government and its false promises.

 

Movement Chairman Anatol Bizgu said at a news conference in Infotag on Monday that after the previous protest actions held last January 20, the new Government of Premier Pavel Filip invited Movement leaders for negotiations and promised to solve the problems with housing and pensions for refugees.

 

In his words, there were several telephone calls from Gen. Ion Coropceanu, Adviser to the Prime Minister, who wanted to know more about the situation so that to convey fresh information to Premier Filip, “but no other actions were undertaken to resolve the said problems”.

 

“The veterans have been at law with the authorities since 2004. We lodged a claim even with the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in favor of the privatization of housing by the veterans and refugees. Furthermore, on June 19, 2013 the Moldovan Supreme Court passed a decision in favor of the veterans and refugees, but the authorities would not fulfill even one of the decisions. In November 2015, the Moldovan Parliament approved in two readings the Law on Social Housing, according to which veterans and refugees have the right to privatize their state-provided housing. But without waiting for the Law’s coming into force, the Government sent in a letter claiming that this housing was not subject to privatization”, said Anatol Bizgu.

 

He maintains that the Government contradicts to itself and does not meet its own promises. The Movement Chairman called on veterans to take to streets on June 8-9 when a high-ranked European Union delegation will be visiting Chisinau. The Movement is projecting to stage the actions before the Government Building, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of the Interior, the American Embassy, the EU Delegation office, the Presidential Office, the Parliament etc.

 

Infotag’s dossier: The said refugees are mostly the families of former Transnistria residents – officers who were employed by Moldovan police, security and military structures that used to be deployed in Transnistrian populated areas before and during the 1992 armed conflict there. After the war, Chisinau and Tiraspol signed an armistice agreement, by which those officers and their families were evacuated to the right Dniester bank to save them from the local population’s revenge, and were promised that housing would be provided to them by the Moldovan State instead of the homes they lost in Transnistria.

 

But it was only more than 15 years after the armed conflict, namely in 2007 and 2009, that the Moldovan authorities had built and commissioned two apartment houses for the conflict veterans and refugees from Transnistria. However, the authorities prohibited them to privatize the state-provided housing. It was decided that those families wishing to privatize their apartments must repay the full price of them to the State.

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