The Chisinau Municipal Council has voted unilaterally for allocating 56 apartments for the families of forcible refugees from Transnistria. The dwellings are situated in multistory apartment houses at 11/3 Jinta Latina St., 5/3 Bulevardul Mircea cel Batrin, and 16 Igor Vieru St.

These are the families of former Transnistrian residents – officers who were employed by Moldovan police, security and military structures that used to be deployed in Transnistrian populated areas before and during the 1992 armed conflict there.

After the war, Chisinau and Tiraspol signed an armistice agreement, by which those officers and their families were evacuated to the right Dniester bank to save them from the local population’s revenge, and were promised that housing would be provided to them by the Moldovan State instead of the homes they lost in Transnistria.

By this February 1, only one of the promised two apartment houses had been built. However, to make it fully operational and officially valid, some paper work has yet to be done, without which the city authorities may not issue certificates to lodgers or connect the building to utility networks.

But the exhausted families moved into their empty apartments shortly before the New Year, without waiting for the documents or elementary conveniences. In parallel, the refuges began persistent, systematic and loud picketing of the City Hall, demanding to provide normal living conditions to them.

The Chisinau Municipal Council began considering the refugees’ question only last Thursday evening, though the CMC meeting began at 10 in the morning. And all that time a large group of the refugees, led by their movement chairman Anatol Bizgu, were present in the CMC session room, watching the councilor work.  // Infotag



Publication date: 22 February 2008   

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