Moldovan president says leadership's duty to avenge young people's deaths, tortures through true justice reform

Chisinau, 7 April /MOLDPRES/ - President Maia Sandu comes up with a message 14 years after the events which took place in April 2009. The message reads that, at that time, citizens took to streets, in order to peacefully demonstrate against a corrupt regime. The message also reads that the people demanded their right to live in a free and democratic state and that they wanted to save their future.   

„The day of 7 April 2009 marks the maturity of our people, which will never accept to be swallowed by dictatorship. Fourteen years ago, people flatly chose such a way – the one of democracy, of rights observed, the one of the European Union. At that time, we went the road which we everybody thought that it would be quick; yet, in the next years, there were also other attempts to suppress the democracy and our future. Nevertheless, the citizens of Moldova always knew in what stat they wanted to live. They clearly saw who works for democracy and who plots against it,’’ the head of state says, the presidential press service has reported.     

President Maia Sandu stressed that the people of Moldova had proved, through firm action and attitude, that it did not accept the dictatorship. ‘’There were more missed opportunities; yet, in our short history, we proved that we have free spirit, do not accept tyranny and violence. Our duty is to avenge the deaths and tortures of young people from 7 April through a true justice reform, so that the communist ‘’troikas,’’ who were convicting citizens beaten direct in cells, without lawyer, without appeal, never appear,’’ the Moldovan president’s message also reads.      

At the same time, the head of state says that the corrupt people from justice presently use the pretext of the independence of justice, in order to hide their abuses; yet, no judge and no prosecutor can currently wipe the huge spot which has remained since 2009. The president also said that Moldova deserved a justice which serves the people and that the country would have such a justice.   

„We might still face obstacles, but we will not turn away. We are firm in the reforms and changes we want to do, we edify a European country. Our citizens - children, young people, adults or elderly people, have right to live freely and in safety, along with other states with the same values and aspirations,’’ President Maia Sandu added.