Transnistria marks Commemoration and Mourning Day on Aug. 1

On August 1 august, the Commemoration and Mourning Day is marked in Moldova's eastern area. They commemorate the fallen in the 1992 military conflict. Addressing the region's inhabitants, leader Igor Smirnov says the events from that year represented “an act of monstrous genocide against Transnistria's people,” Info-Prim Neo quotes the Transnistrian news agency „Olvia-press”. “Some 800 Transnistrians fell from the hand of the Moldovan national-fascists, and 1,500 were wounded, hundreds of factories, schools, kindergartens and houses were destroyed. The material damages caused by Moldova's aggression exceeded 10 billion rubles,” Smirnov stated. The Transnistrian leader adds “up to now Moldova has not found courage to apologize for the grief and pain it caused the Transnistrian people in 1992, for the tears of children, women, and elderly, for the enormous material damages.” “Even now Moldova does not cease its attempts to destroy our little state, using different methods and forms: economic blockades, political pressure, diplomatic promises and informational blackmail. Despite all this, PMR (Transnistria) grows and develops, realizes the social-economic plans, strengthens its relationships with Russia and Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh,” Smirnov stated. The military conflict on the Nistru took place in the spring-summer of 1992. The cease-fire accord was signed on July 21, 1992. Last March, at commemoration meeting for the heroes fallen on the Nistru, the first Moldovan president, Mircea Snegur, said that on March 2 Moldova had become a UN member and namely this fact had made one of the greatest powers having had and having geopolitical interests here “to unleash a knavish war.” According to him , Russia armed the separatists, trained them and get with them on positions. According to Chisinau authorities, 287 people died, some 40 were reported missing and other 3,500 were injured in the Nistru military conflict.