“The armed conflict on the Nistru was planned by a criminal regime that is not care about the national interests and democratic changes in Moldova. Any insinuation that the country's constitutional authorities bear responsibility for the start of the war as they introduced armed forces in Transnistria is erroneous,” the head of the National Union of Independence War Veterans Eduard Maican said in a news conference held at Info-Prim Neo on March 11. The conference was themed “Defamation of the Memory Day means attack on the memory of those who died for the country's independence.” “The pro-imperial separatist forces in Transnistria sparked the fratricidal war with the help of Cossacks and criminal elements paid to kill,” Eduard Maican said. He stressed the police officers on duty and innocent people had to face Russian tanks and armored cars on the bridge in Tighina before March 2, 1992, when the war broke out. General Anton Gamurari told the news conference that blood was first shed in Vulcanesti, not in Transnistria's Dubasari, when the bandits attacked the police commissariats. “Why nobody remembers the so-called chief prosecutor of Transnistria Boris Luchik, who admitted in 1993 that the bandits who shed blood and committed crimes were from Tiraspol?” the general asked. Gamurari said he was commander of the Special Police Brigade. “The Brigade's subdivisions included 482 persons. What kind of war was it when our adversaries were much larger in number? Furthermore, we had a gun for two policemen,” the general said, stressing that the truth should not be hidden because those from the right bank of the Nistru had to fight as they were abused and killed mercilessly and groundlessly. “We were surrounded by criminal groups equipped with the best arms. They wanted to kill 85 police officers in a fire. We did not want that war. It was organized and started by Transnistrian forces,” said Anatolie Rusu, a member of the National Council of the National Union of Independence War Veterans. Another veteran, Anton Bejan, said that in 1992 they honorable dealt with the provocations of the separatists and mercenaries released from Russian prisons. The veterans held the news conference in reaction to an article that appeared in a Chisinau newspaper after the Memory Day marked on March 2. The article condemned the Moldovan authorities for the steps taken in the Transnistrian conflict. “By that article they defamed the heroes killed in the war. ”Nezavisimaya Moldova” will be sued if it does not withdraw its allegations,” said Eduard Maican. Events to commemorate those who fought for Moldova's independence will be held in Cosnita village on Sunday, March 14.