World community must recognize action against Gagauz and Transdniestria people as genocide: political analyst
Events of early 1990s in the territory of the former Moldavian SSR (current Moldova — REGNUM) cannot be qualified other than genocide, political analyst, official representative of the Union of Orthodox Citizens in Moldova and Transdniester Vladimir Bukarsky stated in an interview to REGNUM correspondent on Dec 3 2007.
While commenting on the initiative to qualify events of early 1990s in Moldova as genocide of Gagauz people, Bukarsky remarked that he must agree with those who had articulated it. “Volunteers of the then-prime minister Mircea Druc were dispatched to Gagauzia with the only purpose: kill the un disobedient nation who had decided to resist their forced conversion to the Romanian nationality. I must observe that Gagauz are one of the rare Turkish-speaking Christian Orthodox nations, along with the Chuvash, Yakut, and Kryashen people.”
“The ideology of those who organized ‘the crusade against Gagauzia’ was not even disguised and was openly declared at the meetings of the People’s Front of Moldova: ‘The good Gagauz is the dead Gagauz.’ Volunteers who went to kill the Transdniester people in Dubossary had the same goal – slaughter on the ethnical grounds. What for the happenings in Transdniester in 1991, and especially in June 1992 in Bendery — it was a blunt Naziish pogrom. I have to absolutely agree with the late general Alexander Lebed: people there were killed in such a way that Waffen SS members of the 1941 version look as mere children in comparison,” the expert observed.
Bukarsky argues that the world community must give an appropriate judgment of the action of the pro-Romanian national activists, not only against the Gagauz people, but also against the Transdniester people. “Taking into account the multi-national population of the Moldova itself, we could agree with the opinion of historian Petr Shornikov that a civil conflict organized by a pro-Romanian nationalist clique took place in 1990-1992. However, the Transdniester and Gagauz people <…> were treated by the clique as ‘aliens,’ ‘unwanted guests,’ ‘occupants,’ and ‘foes of the Romanian nation.’ Therefore, we are dealing with an act of genocide against both Gagauz and Transdniestrian people, which has to be recognized by the world community,” Bukarsky summed up.
REGNUM reference: In Oct 1990, reacting to the Moldova’s new course for the unification with Romania, the self-proclaimed Gagauz Republic announced election to the Supreme Council of Gagauzia. This was used as a pretext for sending to Gagauzia a motor convoy carrying activists of the People’s Front of Moldova and ‘volunteers’ from Romania guarded by militia detachments. The force was supposed to disrupt the election and suppress the Gagauz movement for national sovereignty. “The crusade against Gagauzia” was led by prime minister of Moldova Mircea Druc. The action entailed casualties among civil population of Gagauzia. Escalation of the conflict was prevented by interference of units of the USSR’s Armed Forces.
18:21 12/03/2007
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