MP requests the creation of a commission to investigate the events of the military conflict on Nistru

Social-Liberal MP Oleg Serebrian requested the creation of a national committee to investigate the events occurred in August 1991 – July 1992. Serebrian addressed his request to the head of state, Parliament and Prosecutor General at Parliament’s sitting held on Thursday, March 1. According to the leader of the SLP, this committee should 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 said, specifying that any military defeat should be examined and analysed by an investigation committee which should verify the conduct of military and political officials, the impact of their decisions over the evolution of the events, actions which were not undertaken so far. The SLP leader considers that it is the time people learn how, why and who influenced the decisions of the head of state back then, who was behind the sabotage in 1992. Serebrian mentioned that while some voices in Chisinau request the specialised bodies to start proceedings against the so-called leaders in Tiraspol, nobody wonders if there are any persons in Chisinau who could be hold answerable for betrayal. “It is possible that that persons were working close to President Snegur”, the MP said. On March 2, 2006, it will be 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.