The president of the National Unity Party (PUN) Octavian Țîcu requested the Constitutional Court to declare a stipulation of the law on the rehabilitation of victims of repression unconstitutional. This says “the children of persons who were subject to repression, who were born in places of repression or on the way to them, are considered children born in marriages registered before the repression”, IPN reports.
According to Octavian Țîcu, this text deprives about 300 persons of the elementary right to benefit from the status of victim of repression of the totalitarian communist regime.
The MP noted that approximately 35,000 people, primarily children and women, who were considered enemies of the people, were deported from Moldova on the night of July 6, 1949. They were moved to an unknown place and lost their families, possessions and lives. They were obliged to work in gulags and then returned home, being treated in the Soviet period as enemies of the people. Another injustice was done in 1991 – the social, political and moral rehabilitation of these people wasn’t plenary. After the adoption of the package of laws concerning these persons, a number of injustices were witnessed, including the possibility of retroceding.
PUN vice president Ion Kobyshenko explained that Parliament in 1992 adopted the law on the rehabilitation of the victims of political repression. Under this law, all the members of the families of deportees have the status of victim of political repression. However, in 1994 Parliament adopted another law by which the norm stipulated by the first law was interpreted and this noted that not all the children who were born in places of repression have the status of victim of political repression, but only those born in marriages registered before the repression. In 2015, a legislative procedure for abrogating this stipulation was initiated in Parliament, but it didn’t pass the second reading.
The PUN members consider the stipulation “the children of persons who were subject to repression, who were born in places of repression or on the way to them, are considered children born in marriages registered before the repression” runs counter to provisions of Articles 1, 4 and 16, which provide that all the citizens of the Republic of Moldova are equal before the law and the public authorities regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, sex, political affiliation, property or social origin.
