The Moldovan Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) is demanding from the Moldovan authorities to assume a certain, clear stance on the perspective of having the Russian flag hoisted over the Moldovan soil.
MHC Chairman Stefan Uritu told that the Committee is getting increasingly alarmed about the absence of whatever reaction by the Moldovan Communist authorities to the recent initiative by ‘the so-called region’s parliament’ to institutionalize the Russian Federation flag as the national flag of the region.
‘We perceive the continuing silence of our country leaders as their silent consent to what is leading to a violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova’, said Stefan Uritu.
He further held, such silence is particularly striking against the background of the Moldovan Government’s reaction to the Romanian flag raising over the presidential palace in Chisinau on 7April.
‘Then, the ruling Communist Party as well as Tiraspol and Moscow perceived the Romanian flag over Chisinau as a coup d’etat, while the presence of Russian flags here is causing no protest in our ruling party. This is a bright example of how differently our authorities can treat analogous situations’, underlined the MHC Chairman.
He presumes that by turning a blind eye on Tiraspol’s acts of lawlessness of such sort, the Russian Federation is in fact instigating the separatist regime to further ‘illegal and even barbaric actions’.
Uritu said, the seizure by Tiraspol of the railroad network in the region, of the Dniester River fleet, peasant lands, attempts to grasp the property of the Moldovan jail in Bendery, destruction of Romanian-language schools in the region demonstrate that the Russian Federation directly interferes into the Republic of Moldova’s domestic affairs and thus consolidates its influence in this zone.
