Tiraspol Regime tenses the situation in Transnistrian region – HCHRM

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of Moldova (HCHRM) is concerned about the series of actions recently undertaken by the regime from Tiraspol and considers that its purpose is to tense the situation in the security zone, Info-Prim Neo learned from a press release made public by HCHRM. The press release specifies that on May 13, 2007, the self-proclaimed regime from Tiraspol sent several hundreds of policemen and armed civilians to Corjevo village and arrested the mayor of the village, Valeriu Mitul and the councillor of the Dubsari raion, Iurie Cotofan. HCHRM announces about other violations of the fundamental human rights in the region, including the fact that armed stations were set up in places not authorised by the Joint Control Commission, which makes the population from both right and left side of Nistru indignant and could make the situation in the region unstable. The committee specifies that the decision-making persons within JCC refused to visit the village under the pretext that the representatives of the self-proclaimed regime and of the Russian Federation do not consider necessary to involve, although the incidents occurred in the security zone. HCHRM warns that similar provocations were organised by the separatist regimes in Abkhazia and Georgia and they already had victims. The Committee calls on the JCC, Moldovan, Russian, Ukrainian authorities, and OSEC to undertake all the necessary measures to stop the violations of the criminal groups which usurped the power in the settlements located on the left bank of Nistru. HCHRM mentions that according to the decision of the European Court for Human Rights on “Ilascu” case, the responsibility for the observance of the human rights in the Transnistrian region belongs to Moldova, as the sovereign of the territory, as well as to the Russian Federation, the troops of which are supporting and allowing the unconstitutional actions of the self-proclaimed regime, the press release reads.