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Moldovan protesters’ actions ‘beyond understanding’ – Medvedev
Published: 17 April, 2009, 21:23
TAGS: Medvedev, CIS, Protest, Politics
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev has said anti-government protests that followed the parliamentary election in Moldova were illegal and “shocking.”
In his interview with Russia’s NTV channel, the Russian president said, “Sometimes people can be unhappy with the results of elections. I can also understand an opposition demanding a government to take certain measures, or even to revise the results of elections, but this should happen within light of the law.”
“What we saw in Moldova is an example of unconstitutional actions,” he added. “The pictures from Chisinau were really shocking when protesters were trying to plant a flag of a foreign state on some state institutions, which is beyond any understanding, whatever the reasons. Do these people want to live in a different state or do they strive to lose national sovereignty? Then it’s something different.”
April 5 parliamentary election results sparked violent protests in the capital Chisinau and attacks on the Moldovan Parliament and Administration buildings. As many as 90 people were injured and over 200 were arrested.
Opposition parties claimed the results were rigged and demanded a recount. According to preliminary results, the Communist party chaired by President Vladimir Voronin is still the winner with about 50 % of the vote. The final results, however, will be announced on April 21.
“As a political leader who can’t be indifferent to such processes,” Medvedev continued, “I cannot accept the form it was progressing in. The Moldovan leadership assessed it the same way. I’ve spoken about this with my colleague President Voronin several times. And I think European institutions have also assessed the events unambiguously.”
“Such kinds of civil activities should be within the law, not in the frame of so-called coloured revolutions, which haven’t created anything in the post-Soviet space but poverty and human rights problems,” the Russian president said.
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I agree with Count Cash, the actions are easy to understand, but for different reasons. The fact is, the present Moldovan leadership, although legally elected back in 2001, is the prime reason for which fundamental human rights are disrespected by the police and prosecuter's office there. Apart from their well founded doubts about the election result, young people have had enough of non-transparent and corrupt institutions in Moldova, kept working as they are by the communist government. As for the foreign flags, this also is easy to understand, if we remember that the present day Republic of Moldova was part of Romania before it was stolen from that country by the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop (aka Hitler-Stalin) pact in 1940, which preceded, or was indeed a fundamental precedent for WW2. A union of Moldova with Romania is symbolic of a redemption of national values and moral integrity, badly damaged not only by the soviet occupation of 45 years, but continually now also by the Moldovan communist regime, who unfortunately are the direct inheritors and the not-so-subtle perpetuators of that legacy. If Russia wishes to see a strong, self-respecting and independent Moldova, which is sincerely friendly to Russia, as well as to other countries in the neighborhood, an element in regional stability, and not a state in danger of disintegrating, it would do well to protect human rights in Moldova, even if this means withdrawing it's (seemingly unconditional) support of the Voronin regime, which is now guilty of gross human rights abuses, including government sanctioned murder, disappearances and torture.
So why are they beyond understanding? They are pretty easy to understand, these uprisings have been directed by the EU and Romania as part of a concerted effort to undermine Moldova's governement. The reason; to expand the EU empire, in a deal with Romania, that allowed it to expand as well. Maybe, why internatinal players like the EU are breaching international law is beyond understanding, but history shows, they don't care about that either. They are quite happily take part in bombing and invading countries for their own political ends, so an uprising, well that's on the low point on their scale, so easily understandable.
I think Mr President should remove de occupation army from Moldova (14 Russian Army) then, maybe, he can say something about Moldova. So, please : Russia go home!!!