Forces within state bodies back Tiraspol regime - Stefan Uratu

In both state structures in Chisinau and the nongovernmental sector and political parties there are forces which either directly promote the interests of the unconstitutional regime in Tiraspol, or are manipulated by such forces, the chairman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (HCHR), Stefan Uratu told Info-Prim Neo. Uratu mentioned that the proposal made by the MP Oleg Serebrian a week ago, to create a commission for analysing the mistakes and acts of betrayal committed in the 1992 war, is a “reasonable” one, but rather belated, which could result in “a hunt for ghosts”. “To me, it seems much more important to create a commission which would elucidate who is delaying the settlement of the Transnistrian crisis at the moment and who ruins all the efforts in this regard”, Uratu said. “I’m sure that if we would focus only on the events of 1992, we will overlook what happens now and will have to take this situation again after other 10 or 15 years, when it’ll be too late”, the quoted source stated. MP Oleg Serebrian, representing the Social Liberal Party, proposed to create a commission which would hear a series of high officials, including the head of state Mircea Snegur, his advisors on security and defence issues, head of the Government, ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interiors, as well as military officials of those times. “The people should know its heroes, as well as its betrayers. The lack of transparency in the Transnistrian War leads to the situation when heroes and betrayers are paid the same honours”, Serebrian said. According to the MP, there is no doubt that the enormous errors done during the conflict and post-conflict were due not only to incompetence, but also bad will. “The conflict has been a great betrayal, whose dimension stays unknown even today”, Serebrian stated. On March 2, 2006, it was 15 years since the Nistru conflict started. According to statistics, 287 lost their lives during the disputes, and the location of other 40 is still not known. Since 1992 until now, about 250 service-men died and another 350 are disabled.