Until Moldova ratifies the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, it will remain a territory open for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The statement was made by the National Coalition for the International Criminal Court, which Wednesday staged a theatrical action in front of the Ministry of Agriculture, where the Moldovan MPs work on a temporary basis, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The ratification of this document (the Rome Statute – e.n.) is necessary as this is a condition for accepting Moldova into the EU. If Moldova ratifies it, it will avoid sheltering war criminals and persons who commit crimes against humanity,” said the head of Promo-Lex Association Ion Manole. According to Ion Manole, the Parliament of Moldova must remove the provision concerning the impossibility of enforcing the law in the breakaway republic of Transnistria from the draft law on the ratification of the Rome Statute. Otherwise, the Transnistrian region will remain open for committing crimes against humanity and war crimes, Manole said He voiced hope that the document will be ratified by May. He considers that if the Rome Status would have been ratified earlier, the April 7 events hadn't taken place. The participants in the action put puppets representing killed persons on the ground. Alongside, they placed a table of the dictators who killed millions of people, like Théoneste Bagosora, Adolf Hitler, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Another paper puppet representing Moldova was put in the middle of the table. “This means that Moldovan will continue to be a refuge for any person who committed acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity until it ratifies the Rome Statute,” said Amnesty International Moldova coordinator Viorel Barbanoua. The Coalition demands introducing the bill on the Rome Status in the agenda of the parliamentary sittings so that it is adopted as soon as possible. It intends to collect signatures in support of the ratification of the Rome Statute. “We will collect signatures from MPs and persons holding important positions so as to show that not only the civil society wants the document to be ratified,” Viorel Barbanoua said. Similar actions are held today at the Embassy of Moldova in the UK and in Sweden.