Veterans’ associations warn about danger for schools on the left bank of the Nistru

The Federation of Associations of Veterans and Reserves of the Moldovan Armed Forces warn that the so-called authorities on the left bank of the Nistru are doing their utmost to close the schools that use the Latin script. The veterans adopted a declaration which reads that the repression bodies in the region, supported and directed by Moscow, have employed a whole arsenal of inhumane methods: imprisonments, terrorizing and ill-treatment of teachers, parents and children who oppose the unconstitutional administration in Tiraspol, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The instructive-educational activity here takes place in incredibly difficult conditions, created artificially by the secessionist unconstitutional authorities. Seven of eight schools don’t have their own buildings. And the rented ones don’t have the basic conditions for schooling”, reads the statement. The veterans stress that this antinational and antidemocratic policy was denounced recently by the European Court of Human Rights when it condemned the Russian Federation for violating the right to education of children in the Transnistrian region. “After the ECHR ruling, the moral and psychological attacks against these schools intensified obviously. Every day they are threatened. The schools are discredited through the spread of fake rumors about the low level and standards of teaching”, reads the statement. According to the veterans, schools that use the Latin script are labeled by Transnistrian authorities “fascist nests that sprawl terrorists”. The veterans demand the Moldovan government to take concrete measures to ensure that these schools in Transnistria continue their activity and to ensure the personal security of this category of Moldovan citizens. Moreover, the veterans demanded the Russian Federation to fulfill its international commitments and withdraw its troops, weapons and ammo from the Transnistrian region, which is indisputably a part of Moldova. The Federation of Associations of Veterans and Reserves of the Moldovan Armed Forces includes 14 public associations, reuniting more than 3500 officers and sergeants, retired or in reserve, of the Moldovan armed forces.