New conflict in Corjova
The Transnistria customs authorities detained a Moldovan track, loaded with limestone, designed for the construction of an orthodox church in the Corjova village.
The customs officers motivated their actions by the fact that the track had tried to illegally penetrate onto the territory of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PMR) without any clearance and its driver has no respective consignment notes.
The Helsinki Committee of Human Rights to Moldova expressed protest against these actions by the Transnistrian regime, which infringed upon the freedom of movement and religious association by forbidding the local believers to construct a temple.
The Committee called upon the Joint Control Commission (JCC) to interfere into this conflict, to provide the observance of the fundamental human rights and freedoms in the Security Zone. It remarked again that the existing format of the peacekeeping forces is not efficient, that is why, it must be either dissolved or replaced by a mission of civil observers.
During the Soviet time Corjova was suburb of Dubassari and, in the opinion of the Transnistria authorities, it remains a micro-district until the present and therefore under Transnistria's jurisdiction. Moldova considers Corjova as an independent village. In June the elections of the local Mayor and the Council were frustrated there twice, because of resistance on the part of the Transnistrian militia. // Infotag
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