The victims of Communist repression continue to demand that a monument to deportees be erected. Valentina Sturza, head of the Association of Former Deportees and Political Prisoners, said the persons who remained alive and managed to return home do not have where to light a candle in memory of those who died in Siberia. “Our Bessarabia was decapitated in that period. Many books were written about the Soviet genocide, but we still do not have a monument where to remember those who did not survive the repression. Until last year, the authorities did not devote attention to those who had been deported and did not provide assistance to the deportees who remained alive,” Valentina Sturza said Friday in the national conference “70 years of the first wave of mass deportations in Bessarabia of June 13, 1941,” Info-Prim Neo reports. Adviser to the Prime Minister Leonid Bujor said the deportees will receive a lump-sum payment of 500 lei. “We do not have the moral right to forget the ordeal of deportations as it left a deep wound in the souls of the deportees and those who remained at home. It is our duty to know the Communist deportations and provide assistance to those affected,” said Leonid Bujor. According to lawyer Alexandru Postica, of Promo-Lex Association, the Moldovan legislation does not allow rehabilitating the victims of deportations. “Regretfully, no political detainee was fully rehabilitated because we do not have the necessary legislation,” he stated, adding he will submit a number of proposals for amending the legislation in this respect to the relevant institutions. On June 13, it is 70 years of the first wave of the mass deportations from Bessarabia. The Chisinau administration promised to build a monument to the deportees by the summer of 2009. The term was then changed. During the commemoration events last year, former Acting President Mihai Ghimpu said the monument that will replace the commemorative plaque in the square of the Railway Terminal in Chisinau will be unveiled in 2011. The design of the future monument was selected at a tender contest. It is a horizontal plaque representing groups of people who mingle with wheels, pieces of train and weapons used by the Stalinist regime to cause suffering.