{"id":383044,"date":"2014-04-07T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T08:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/?p=383044"},"modified":"2014-04-07T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T08:49:54","slug":"moldova-5th-anniversary-desperation-justice-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldova-5th-anniversary-desperation-justice-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova: 5th Anniversary of the Desperation of Justice\/ OPINION"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Please find below an opinion piece about the events\u00a0occurring\u00a0on April 7, 2009 in Moldova, written by Josef Smida, a Czech young man\u00a0volunteering for the United Nations Moldova.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

You know the feeling when you are heading to a new country when your mind is full of questions and curiosity. From historical via cultural to political point of view. Namely, I have never been to Moldova before. I have been familiar with their wine and cognac culture a bit and their poor economical situation among the European standards. Those informations are not difficult to find anywhere, they seem like a kind of fundamental knowledge about. Clich\u00e9 which has to be known. But that\u2019s probably it. Such superficial, isn\u2019t it? Nevertheless, Moldova is much more complicated and rich and it should not be any surprise for anybody, really. So, lets get to be deeper familiar with Moldova. At first lets see why April is so important for huge part of Moldovan society. It is a sad story, actually.<\/p>\n

These days of early April 2014 are right five years since so called Grape Revolution in Moldova has been started after parliamentary elections in 2009 which won Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) with majority of parliamentary seats, with almost 3\/5 of seats required for the party to control the presidential election. For big part of Moldovan society, mostly youngsters, students and other people who still could and wanted to dream about better future in the sense of the 21st century it was a category of nightmare, indeed. To spend next four years with this same corrupted, oligarchic and so called communist party (and finally one colored government) which maximally has ever seen communism from a fast going train, as we generally say in Czech when the phenomena is more linked to hypocrisy than reality, was an imagine which nobody from those people wanted to let happen.<\/p>\n

Thus protesters wanted to recounted the elections as they were sure it was all fraudulented, but government and other state institutions responsible for proper democratic processes did not have the same opinion. So, heavy protests and street riots would start. Moldovan civil society had raised after very long time and that time police brutality to humiliate its own citizens were coming faster, stronger and uncontrolled than they even could imagine.<\/p>\n

For more text and video, go to the author’s blog\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Please find below an opinion piece about the events\u00a0occurring\u00a0on April 7, 2009 in Moldova, written by Josef Smida, a Czech young man\u00a0volunteering for the United Nations Moldova.\u00a0 You know the feeling when you are heading to a new country when your mind is full of questions and curiosity. From historical via cultural to political point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":383023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-society"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Please find below an opinion piece about the events\u00a0occurring\u00a0on April 7, 2009 in Moldova, written by Josef Smida, a Czech young man\u00a0volunteering for the United Nations Moldova.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

You know the feeling when you are heading to a new country when your mind is full of questions and curiosity. From historical via cultural to political point of view. Namely, I have never been to Moldova before. I have been familiar with their wine and cognac culture a bit and their poor economical situation among the European standards. Those informations are not difficult to find anywhere, they seem like a kind of fundamental knowledge about. Clich\u00e9 which has to be known. But that\u2019s probably it. Such superficial, isn\u2019t it? Nevertheless, Moldova is much more complicated and rich and it should not be any surprise for anybody, really. So, lets get to be deeper familiar with Moldova. At first lets see why April is so important for huge part of Moldovan society. It is a sad story, actually.<\/p>\n

These days of early April 2014 are right five years since so called Grape Revolution in Moldova has been started after parliamentary elections in 2009 which won Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) with majority of parliamentary seats, with almost 3\/5 of seats required for the party to control the presidential election. For big part of Moldovan society, mostly youngsters, students and other people who still could and wanted to dream about better future in the sense of the 21st century it was a category of nightmare, indeed. To spend next four years with this same corrupted, oligarchic and so called communist party (and finally one colored government) which maximally has ever seen communism from a fast going train, as we generally say in Czech when the phenomena is more linked to hypocrisy than reality, was an imagine which nobody from those people wanted to let happen.<\/p>\n

Thus protesters wanted to recounted the elections as they were sure it was all fraudulented, but government and other state institutions responsible for proper democratic processes did not have the same opinion. So, heavy protests and street riots would start. Moldovan civil society had raised after very long time and that time police brutality to humiliate its own citizens were coming faster, stronger and uncontrolled than they even could imagine.<\/p>\n

For more text and video, go to the author’s blog\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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