The Association of Veterans of the 1992 War “Tiras-Tighina” asks the national public broadcaster Teleradio-Moldova to offer it one hour of airtime to discuss subjects related to the Nistru war that started in March 1992. The request comes after an invitee of the TV program “Pages of History”, historian Leonid Tabara, denigrated some of the active participants of the war. It was made public in a news conference on February 15, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Tiras-Tighina” chairman Anatolie Caraman said an application to this effect will be filed on Monday afternoon. They will ask that they are offered airtime during next Monday's program. “On December 21, 2009, during the program “Pages of History” moderated by Anatol Dubrovski, historian Leonid Tabara, who we consider a liar, offended publicly Generals Ion Costas, Anton Gamurari and other officers who took part in the war for Moldova's independence and integrity,” Caraman said. According to him, Leonid Tabara accused the Moldovan officers of killing a militiamen in Transnistria and said the 1992 war was a civil not a national liberation war. The veterans do not agree with this. “If the Doctor of Historical Sciences, Communist Tabara says the police started the war at a time when the witnesses of the beginning of the war are alive, how correctly does he treat other historical events that took place earlier?” asked Major Ion Levinta. “Tiras-Tighina” in concert with the Association of the Deportees and Repressed Persons of Moldova called on the authorities to outlaw the Communists Party (PCRM). According to the leaders of the two associations, Anatolie Caraman and Valentina Sturza, this party is to blame for the misinformation at the national public TV channel and other private channels. “The Communists have never told the truth. We ask the Government and the Parliament to condemn, even posthumously, those persons who deported the Bessarabians from Moldova. The desecretization of the archives started very late. The commission for combating communism in Moldova was also set up late,” said Valentina Sturza. Historian Anton Moraru said the public TV channels and other private channels loyal to the former regime pursue an anti-Romania policy, like the PCRM. He suggested making a film about the war on the Nisru in order to show that the war started suddenly on March 12, 1992, but was planned beforehand. Several hundreds of thousands of Moldovan families were deported in 1940 and in 1949. The war on the Nistru took the lives of several hundreds of people.