Romania’s Chamber of Deputies to hear a report on the situation at Tighina Cemetery

The Committee for Defence, Public Order and National Security of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania will hear the director of the National Office for Heroes Memory, Cristian Scarlat, regarding the Romanian military gravesite in Tighina, Romania’s “Gandul” newspaper announces, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. According to prior information, the Tiraspol unrecognised authorities ordered to destroy the Tighina gravesite. One third of the surface of the cemetery is occupied by the graves of the Romanian soldiers who died in the World War II. The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed concerned about the destructive actions at the Romanian war graves in the cemetery in Tighina town. The old Tighina Cemetery was set up in 1812, when Tighina fortress passed from the Turks’ possession under the Russians’ control. During the World War II, there were buried Romanian, German and Soviet military men in the cemetery. According to the National Office for Heroes Memory, 133 Romanian soldiers are buried in the Cemetery in Tighina.