Moldovan president seeks transfer of archives of law enforcement bodies to National Archive
The archives of Moldovan social and political organizations will be reorganized and the archive funds of the Interior Ministry, Security and Information Service, Prosecutor General's Office and other funds covering the deeds of the totalitarian communist regime will be transferred to the National Archives in order to ensure people's free access to them. These issues have been discussed at a working meeting summoned by Parliament Speaker and acting President Mihai Ghimpu, the parliament's media relations department has said.
A request in this respect was sent by the commission in charge of assessing the deeds of the totalitarian communist regime in Moldova. The meeting was attended by the head of the commission, Gheorghe Cojocaru, the secretary of the commission, Mihai Tasca, the deputy director of the Security and Information Service, Valentin Dediu, the deputy prosecutor general, Igor Serbinov, the head of the department for information of the Interior Ministry, Iurie Burca, the director of the State Archives Service, Vasile Isac, and the director of the National Archives, Petru Vicol.
Mihai Ghimpu asked the decision-makers to ensure the shift of files opened against people subjected to political repression and deportations to the National Archive and to identify technical possibilities and storage facilities in order to complete the transfer as soon as possible and to provide free access to these files. Ghimpu insisted that the rights of deported and politically repressed people, who have not been rehabilitated yet, should be reinstated according to the legislation.
In the context, the deputy director of the Security and Information Service, Valentin Dediu, said that 28,984 victims of the totalitarian communist regime were rehabilitated in 1993-2000. He added that three months were necessary to transfer 23,247 files from the Security and Information Service. The deputy prosecutor general, Igor Serbinov, said that the Prosecutor General's Office was willing to rehabilitate all the victims of the communist regime. He added that 736 juridical cases on the matter were going to be examined. A joint meeting in this respect, with officials of the Interior Ministry will be held his week, he said.
Iurie Burca of the Interior Ministry expressed the ministry's willingness to start the transfer procedure this week, specifying that the institution had about 33,590 files of deportees.
Two representatives of the commission in charge of assessing the deeds of the totalitarian communist regime in Moldova, Gheorghe Cojocaru and Mihai Tasca, pointed out the importance of this transfer and people's free access to these funds, stressing that several European states had the same practice. Historians ask for transferring these files as soon as possible, because their number decreases annually. According to them, 230,359 files from the Party Archive of the Institute for Social and Political Researches of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, were destroyed in 1991. Only in 1990-1991 more than 14,000 files were destroyed under the decisions of the national security agency of the Soviet Union (KGB). Historians say that five files were destroyed in 2007 and their content is not known.
At the end of the meeting, Mihai Ghimpu asked that a commission in charge of working out a specific action plan and technical ways to transfer the files should be created. The commission, which will include representatives of the Interior Ministry, Security and Information Service, Prosecutor General's Office and National Archive, will periodically inform the president about its actions.
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