Slobodan Milosevic’s fate is relevant to those that violate human rights massively, PLMD leaders

The fate of the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic is relevant to the dignitaries that violate the human rights massively, leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLMD) told a news conference on Monday. The conference centered on the illegal actions taken by the police against the participants in the meeting held on Sunday in support of the human rights, press freedom and PRO TV Chisinau channel, Info-Prim Neo reports. Speaking about his international work experience, the PLDM vice president Iulian Fruntasu drew a parallel between Sunday’s police acts and the actions taken by the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who stood trial for massive violation of human rights. “We threaten no one because we are not allowed to, but we express our concern about the situation of human rights in Moldova”. Let’s suppose that the Interior Minister can leave the country in certain circumstances, but we remain in the country with the thousands of policemen that have relatives, friends, acquaintances, including among the meeting participants, and will be here after the 2009 elections,” Fruntasu said. The PLDM firs vice president, jurist Alexandru Tanase enumerated a number of normative documents that had been violated by the police: the Law on the Freedom of Assembly, the Law on the Security Service, the Constitution of Moldova, etc. “It is serious when the people are afraid of the police more than of offenders,” Tanase said. “If they are those that enforce the law, why do they behave like bandits?” he asked, referring also to the illegal use of license plates by the police. The PLMD leaders also spoke about the ill-treatment of the meeting participants from Straseni town by civilians, who received the tacit consent of the attending police officers. As a result, a woman got her hand dislocated and suffered other injuries. Many of the police’s acts can be punished through the Penal Code. “Nobody will tolerate them. Somebody will be held accountable, even if in 1-2 months, one year or later,” Tanase said. He called on the policemen to analyze first the instructions of their superiors to see if they are legal. Another first vice president of the PLDM Mihai Godea spoke about different cases of abuse by the police, in practically all the towns and districts of the country, when the meeting was being organized, held and afterward. According to him, the police committed many and diverse illegalities: detention of people, confiscation of property, drawing up of reports, seeking of the lists of persons that went or intended to go to Chisinau. The participants from Balti did not manage to get out of the town and held an ad-hoc protest. The PLDM vice president Vlad Filat accused the police of grossly violating the human rights. “The Minister of the Interior Gheorghe Papuc was reinstated into the post namely for this as he is the one that coordinated the actions,” Filat said. “We draw the local public opinion’s and international organizations’ attention to the fact that the present government is unable to understand that the human rights in Moldova must be observed,” he said.