PLDM launches Communist Rule File

The Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) has presented a so-called “Communist Rule File”, the first volume, on April 3, that it will submit to the General Prosecutor's Office. The file has 765 pages and contains analyses, researches and investigations, press articles, reports related to the abuses committed by the Communist rule from 2001 through 2008, Info-Prim Neo reports. “This report will show the future governance the concrete steps it needs to make after April 5, in order to bring the country to normality and build a free and democratic state. At the same, this file will serve as a basis to probe the ones who have destroyed the foundations of the state of law, the main democratic institutions, have violated the citizens' rights and freedoms and have transformed Moldova into a police state, poor and depopulated,” Vlad Filat, the PLDM leader, has said. Filat says he will personally take this file to the General Prosecutor's office on Monday, April 6. “I will investigate strictly that probing this volume and the ones to be published should be done according to the law.” The PLDM leader says the second volume will be launched shortly after the elections. “These eight years of Communist rule have been marked by corruption, lawlessness, illegal arrests, torture, forcing to Moldovan citizens to leave this country. It would be immoral that all these actions should remained unpunished. Our goal is not to avenge on the Communists, but to give a lesson for the future. It's necessary to return the citizen the feeling of justice, the trust in this country,” said Alexandru Tanase, the PLDM's deputy president. Vitalie Nagacevschi, a PLDM member, says there are very many files not known yet and promised that all the archives would be opened to the public. The action “The Communist Rule File” was launched by the PLDM on December 8, 2008.