Easter Day 2009 in Moldova

The protest I was writing about yesterday happened today with between 10000 to 20000 participants.

On Twitter, Spooky ET has been writing about torture, rape and murder of students while in the custody of the friendly Moldovian police:

"Hundreds of youth are beaten with bestiality in police precincts. No access is given to parents. #pman "

"Medical examiners reported that girls who resisted interrogation were raped and molested in police custody. Their age was not reported #pman "

"The lists of youth arrested do not contain the names of those that have been tortured. #pman "

"Even the Chinese are reporting about the stalinist human rights abuses in Moldova. Will Vietnam, Cuba, and North Korea follow? #pman "

"Hole on Valeriu Boboc's frontal lobe, blunt-force-trauma, and it is probably what's killed him Commie Police=Rapist=Pedophile=Murderer #pman "

So far, only the latter was confirmed by the Press.

(AFP)Authorities confirmed the death of Valeriu Boboc, 23 and a father of one, during riots earlier in the week, although the cause was not immediately clear.

His parents told opposition websites they had picked up his body from a morgue covered in bruises after he was beaten in custody.

At around 1.00 AM local time on Thurday or Friday, two young protesters have filmed on camera (phone?) how police was arresting somebody using force and beating him. That happened while intense automatic gunfire was heard few hundred meters away, on the other site of the square.

The people filming are saying: look, are they (the police) beating him up? .. in blood … Maybe they have killed him. Let's get out of here, …we are the only witnesses.



Here, a link towards a good photo report about the destruction of the Parliament and Presidency on Thurday from Benialivejournal. More pictures through his blog posts here.

Some call it, the Twitter or Web 2.0 based Revolution ; others, like the President blame Romania for a hypothetical underground involvement. In the following report from AP, the author writes about the generation gap as the main cause for the protests:

"With one-quarter of the population working abroad to eke out a living, impoverished Moldova has become a country of the young and the very old.

It's a generation gap that has split the country politically — and violently.

The elderly, who look to Moscow for leadership and are nostalgic for the Soviet past, recently voted to return Communists to power. The young, rallied by text messages and Twitter and eager to join Europe, seized and trashed parliament and the country's presidential offices in response."