Young people and men up to 45 years old are forced to join the paramilitary Transnistrian structures, and many of them that satisfied this service return home as invalids or with severe health problems, members of Promo-lex Association say.

The citizens from the left bank of the Dniester River are to undergo life dangers, health and personal security, being forced to join the paramilitary Transnistrian structures, according to a press communiqué of the Promo-Lex Association.

“Anatolii Mospan of 19 years old, from Lunga village, Dubăsari raion, died on January 2, four days since he was enrolled at a military unit from Tiraspol. The so-called Military Prosecutor’s Office from Tiraspol announced the young man died following acute cardiac insufficiency, while his parents said the body had traces of physical violence”, the communiqué says.

“The young men from the east of Moldova are called to the regional military commissariats for a medical examination. The people that do not come are being searched for. The official refusal to satisfy the military service is administratively and penally sanctioned by the administration of Tiraspol”, according to the same source.

The enrollment process in Transnistria cannot be controlled, sources from the press bureau of the Ministry of Justice have said, contacted by BASA-press.

“The Transnistrian authorities retain in vehicles young men that have residence permit on the right bank of the Dniester River and ask for their documents to check whether they satisfied the paramilitary service in Transnistria or not. If they did not, they are forced to do it or to pay money”, Moldovan Delegation Representative in Unified Commission of Control Ion Leahu has said to BASA-press. // BASA-Press


Publication date: 18 January 2008   

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