Events of March 2 commemorated in Dubasari

The inhabitants of the town of Dubasari commemorated on Sunday, March 2, the events that happened 16 years ago which marked the beginning of the armed conflict on the Nistru. The meeting took place on the spot where the chief of the Dubasari police, Igor Sipcenco, was killed, the Info-Prim Neo correspondent in the area reports. The deputy minister of interior of the unrecognized Transnistrian republic Anatol Gushan and the deputy head of the local administration Tatiana Dolishnyaya took place in the event. Their key-message was “we’ll reject a new aggression of Moldova.” The locals remember that in September 1991, a part of the employees of the police commissariat from Dubasari decided to leave the subdivision and form a new structure of interior under the jurisdiction of self-styled Transnistria. 16 years ago, there were two parallel executive structures in the district of Dubasari: the district executive committee, headed by Ivan Mitcul – an official structure of Chisinau, and the Transnistrian town council, led by Vladislav Finagin. The police commissariat from Dubasari was the only subdivision in the town, the employees of which went on working on the basis of the Moldovan laws. On March 1, 1992, an unnamed person phoned in the police station to announce there was a fight in bar. At about 22.30, Igor Sipcenco, accompanied by an employee of the Transnistrian guard, Pyotr Oleinic, went there to curb the quarrel. On their way, unknown people shot the car of the police chief. Getting shot, Igor Sipcenco lost conscience. He died at the reanimation section of the Dubasari central hospital on March 2, at 1.10. As a reply, a couple of hundreds of people – Cossaks – came to Transnistria from different Russian cities, as Transnistrian officers and police blocked the quarters of the Moldovan police commissariat. In order to avoid casualties the Moldovan police held their fire and surrendered, being taken to Tiraspol as prisoners. On March 2, 1992, at 15.00, more inhabitants of the Cocieri village, on the territory of which the base of the Moldovan contingent was, people backing Moldova’s territorial integrity penetrated the territory of a Russian military unit and took control of the weapons. On March 3, in the fight on the Cocieri foothold amongst the Cossacks, Transnistrian officers and the Moldovan law-enforcing bodies, more people died. Among them, the commander of the battalion of Transnistrian officers Vasile Voronkov. On March 4, a cease-fire protocol was signed in Dubasari. It was signed for the Moldovan side by Boris Muravschi, and for Transnistria by Vladimir Rylyakov. Yet the hostilities did not stop. On the contrary, in the Spring and Summer of 1992 , 156 people were de killed in the hostilities near Dubasari, civilians including.