On 06 July siren signals to commemorate Stalinist deportations victims in Moldova
14:59 | 05.07.2018 Category: Social
Chisinau, 05 July /MOLDPRES/ – The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU) will start the sirens on 06 July, when there are commemorated victims of the second wave of deportations of 1949.
The sirens will be included at 10:00 throughout Moldova. These will be started in solidarity with victims of the Stalinist regime.
The IGSU and local authorities urge citizens to remain calm, while heads of public institutions and administrations are asked to ensure peace in the territory and continue their work.
The sixth of July will be the day of national mourning. The state flags will be on verge in all localities of Moldova.
PM Pavel Filip will attend the ceremony to commemorate victims of Stalinist deportations. The event will be held for 10 minutes and it will be read the names of persons which had suffered from political repression, followed by a mass memorial to victims of Stalinist deportations.
Also, the Moldovan Metropolitan Church announced that at 10:00 there will be a minute of silence. In all churches, bells will be drawn and a memorial service of those which died after Stalinist deportations, and also for those which died in communist prisons.
At present, there are almost 8,000 deportees in Moldova.
The second wave of mass deportations in Bessarabia took place on 06 – 07 July 1949. The persons were loaded into trains and taken to Siberia and Kazakhstan.
Totally, there were three waves of mass deportations: in June 1941, July 1949 and April 1951.
(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor A. Raileanu)