Moldovan veterans of the 1992 armed conflict on the Dniester are ready to start street protesting after March 2 if the Moldovan authorities “do not stop their irresponsible and shameful policies regarding our vital needs.”

The Chairman of the Movement of Refugees from Transnistria, Anatoly Bizgu, stated at a press conference held at the INFOTAG news agency on Tuesday that, “A vast majority of veterans do not have the right to a free medical policy, being listed as the owners of land plots.”

“We demand that veterans be given the status of an unemployed person or a person to whom the state guarantees insurance and issues a free medical policy,” he said, emphasizing that now, i.e. more than 30 years after the war on the Dniester, many of its participants have pathological diseases that developed as a result of wounds or post-war military syndrome.

“None of the veterans in those years received a necessary quality treatment. By the will of the State, we do not receive this assistance even now. We do not have the right to a policy, even if urgent surgical intervention is necessary,” Bizgu complained.

In his understanding, “Now the Adviser to the Prime Minister, Constantin Covrig, is formally in charge of dealing with the affairs and problems of veterans.”

“He was once an active participant in protests. And now he is a member of the ruling party. He lives in a good apartment, has a good salary and car. Now he doesn’t care about the needs of other veterans,” Bizgu said.