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| COMMUNIST HAVOC IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 07/04/2010 |
| (2010-04-07) |
| Last updated: 2010-04-08 13:43 EET |
 Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in April 2009, to protest against the legislative election fraud carried out by pro-Russian Communists. After 8 years in power, the latter aimed at grabbing lifetime power, at all costs, including gross vote-rigging. A throwback to the Soviet regime, during which it enjoyed intensive practice, the diversion technique was equally successful a year ago. Scores of violent persons broke away from the peaceful crowd.
They are unarguably said to belong to special services who took advantage of the police officers’ sudden inertia, stormed and ravaged the Parliament and Presidency buildings. When night fell, hell broke loose. Police officers shook off their apathy equally fast and stepped in arresting hundreds of young people they came upon on the street.
Cases of torture, rapes and at least 4 suspicious deaths make up the toll of those days when the police state, then run by president Vladimir Voronin, a former Soviet police officer himself, functioned at full steam. Relying on no evidence whatsoever, Voronin accused the pro-Western opposition and neighboring Romania of plotting a coup, expelled the Romanian ambassador to Kishinev and introduced compulsory visas for Romanian citizens. It was only the defeat of Communists at the July snap elections and the instatement of a new, pro-Western administration that allowed for the Republic of Moldova to reconcile with Romania and its own citizens alike.
Prime minister Vlad Filat ordered the sacking of all the police officers who took part in the repression. Together with interim president Mihai Ghimpu, Filat has convinced Bucharest, Brussels and Washington that Kishinev today has another, totally different kind of regime. One which is intent on healing the traumas caused by the Voronin regime, which US political analyst Vladimir Tismaneanu defined as ‘’a senile dictatorship’’.
‘’Poorer, but without Communist terror’’, that is how daily paper Evenimentul Zilei views the citizens of the Republic of Moldova. The newspaper deplores the fact that, meanwhile, the economic crisis ‘’has overshadowed democracy’’. But, just like daily paper Romania Libera, the newspaper hails ‘’the dramatic change in a country that seemed forever mired in Communism’’.
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