On the 25th anniversary of the start of the armed conflict on the Nistru, members of the Political Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” (PPPDA) will render homage to the heroes killed in battle. The announcement was made in a news conference at IPN, where the party’s leadership denied the rumors that it plans actions to destabilize public order.
“The PPPDA is a European party that wants changes to be brought about in the country by peaceful ways,” said the party’s deputy chairman Chiril Motpan.
On March 2, members of the party and war veterans affiliated to the party will travel to districts to meet with comrades-in-arms.
Head of the PPPDA local organization in Hancesti Valeriu Bobrov read a statement saying that the war veterans are ignored by the authorities and are treated like beggars. The “Platform Dignity and Truth” demands that the old-age pension and invalidity pension for veterans should be increased and that these should be given allowances and exemptions from paying for electric power and natural gas, etc.
The party members said the current government tries to divide and humiliate those who struggled for the country’s independence, promoting the own interests. In this connection, they called on the veterans to struggle together against the indifference of the government.
Alexandru Panuta, a member of the Board of the PPPDA local organization in Hancesti, who took part in the 1992 war, addressed a message to President Igor Dodon. “The person who told us that he will be the President of everyone chose who to be a President for. He chose to be the President of those who in 1992, without mercy and with special cruelty, showed disrespect for the soldiers who fought for the integrity of the Republic of Moldova. What should their families do after the President of a country went to lay flowers for those who tied our combatants in Bender to the armored car and dragged them through the town and then threw them to the dogs?” asked Alexandru Panuta.
The Memory Day to remember those killed in the Nistru armed conflict is celebrated on March 2.
