{"id":441885,"date":"2016-03-02T21:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=441885"},"modified":"2017-03-02T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:52:49","slug":"march-2-24-years-passed-since-war-transnistria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/march-2-24-years-passed-since-war-transnistria\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2- 24 years passed since the start of the war in Transnistria"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The Republic of Moldova is having the Memory Day on March 2. It is an occasion to commemorate those who fought and died in the armed conflict for defending the integrity and the independence of Moldova against the Russian forces.<\/p>\n

On March 2, 1992, the first Moldovan President Mircea Snegur authorized the attack on the separatist groups from Transnistria who were backed by the former 14th Soviet Army, taken under the control of Russia then.
\nOn the same date, Moldova was admitted in the United Nations.<\/p>\n

\"razboi-nistru-transnistria\"<\/p>\n

As Moldova didn’t have armed forces at that time, the legal authorities used the police and volunteers to fight the Transnistrian Guard and cossacks from Dub\u0103sari, Bender and Tiraspol.<\/p>\n

\"Razboi-Transnistria1\"<\/p>\n

29000 people participated in the armed conflict and some estimate 200-400 of them died.<\/p>\n

The war ended in October 1992, when Russia and Moldova agreed on establishing a ceasefire between the parties in order to start negotiations. The further negotiations gave separatists a special status within Moldova and protection, the so-called “peace-keeping forces” from Russia.<\/p>\n

Transnistria is, de jure, an unrecognized separatist republic, while, de facto, it is controlled and used by the Russian Federation to threaten the internal security of the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n