Opposition urges CoE's Terry Davis to condemn Moldovan Communists

July 16, 2009

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The leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), Vlad Filat, today sent an open letter to Council of Europe's (CE) Secretary-General Terry Davis, proposing that a new chapter on the 21st century communism should be added to the CE resolution condemning the 20th century totalitarian communist regimes.

Filat read out the letter at a briefing, saying that "to our endless shame, Moldova continues to be a stain on Europe's cheek".

"This is the only European country governed by a Communist regime. As a matter of fact, there is almost no difference between it and the other Communist regimes, which suppressed democracy in Europe in the 20th century for decades," the PLDM leader said.

Filat described the 7 April riots [against the alleged falsification of the 5 April parliamentary election in Moldova] as "the peak of the Communist dictatorship".

"Video records of young people beaten up by police and of those who died after being beaten, records of mothers waiting in front of prisons for their tortured children and mothers looking for their children have been broadcast worldwide. Had these records been compared with the ones dating back to the times of the infamous Soviet NKVD, we would have found no big difference, although, at the first sight a situation like this is inconceivable in the 21st century Europe," Filat said.

Filat noted that "the events that took place in Moldova after 7 April are additional proofs of the fact that Europe did not get rid of the dishonour of the totalitarian Communism, although at a certain moment one could have the impression that Moldova has a different regime".

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