Union Council stages National Dignity March on May 13

07.05.2012 16:23
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The unionist platform Union Council will mount the National Dignity March on May 13 on the occasion of 200 years of the annexation of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire, which is marked on May 16, Info-Prim Neo reports. “May 16, 1812 was the day when the Romanian Bessarabians were separated from the family of the European civilization and thrown into the extermination rooms of the red Holocaust for almost two centuries. On these national morning days, no Romania should forget the crimes committed by the Russian-Soviet occupants,” Anatol Caraman, co-chairman of the Union Council, said in a news conference. He stated that all the Romanians are invited to the march that will be staged to commemorate the victims of the Russian-Soviet occupation. Academician Nicolae Dabija, who is another co-chairman of the Union Council, said that besides the march they will also stage other events and they called on the Government and political parties, especially the Liberal Party, to join in. The Union Council also asked the Metropolitan Churches of Moldova and Bessarabia to order ringing the bells in all the churches of the country on May 13. The march will go along the Embassy of Russia and the Embassy of Turkey, where a moment’s silence will be observed. The commemoration event will continue at the Green Theater, where there will be given a performance. “On May 16, we will also go on a march with lit torches. There will be held a service in memory of the victims,” said Nicolae Dabija. According to him, a series of commemorative plaques will be unveiled on this occasion, one of which on the building of the National Library. Commemoration activities will be also performed in the states where Moldovan Romanians emigrated, including Italy, Spain, and Germany. The peace treaty between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire was signed in Bucharest on May 16, 1812, at the end of the Russian-Turkish war of 1806 – 1812. Under its terms, the Eastern part of the Principality of Moldavia, between the Prut and Dniester Rivers, with an area of 45,630 km2 (later known as Bessarabia), was ceded by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal) to Russia.