HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ---------------------------[Fascist activists in Rosca's CDPP have been depriving their children of schooling by withdrawing them from classes in order to swell the ranks of the CDPP's small but rabidly anti-communits protests. This is reminiscent of the Soros inspired strategy in Kosovo, which had Albanian parents preventing their kids from going to state run schools in Yugoslavia. The Moldovan government, however, is taking action against Rosca's CDPP for this criminal action that violates the fundamental rights of children as outlined on the Convention for the Rights of the Child. Good for them, the children should return to school as soon as possible instead of being exposed to the daily fascist and anti-semitic sophisms of CDPP orators.]
Moldova MPs okay charges against opposition
CHISINAU, April 4 (Reuters) - Moldova's Communist-dominated parliament on Thursday cleared the way for leaders of the nationalist opposition to face criminal charges for leading mass anti-government rallies.
Nationalists vowed to ignore the move.
Thousands of people have marched nearly every day since January through central Chisinau, capital of the country nestled between Ukraine and Romania.
Protesters say the government wants to drag ex-Soviet Moldova back into Russia's sphere of influence. The Communists have condemned the rallies as illegal.
Yurie Rosca and Stefan Sacareanu, leaders of the pro-Romanian Christian Democratic People's party, said they would disregard the assembly's vote to strip them of their parliamentary immunity from prosecution.
"I have no intention of obeying the decision. I am not going to come for interrogations. We will continue our protests," Rosca told about 1,000 protesters after the vote.
Only one of 69 deputies present in the 101-seat chamber voted against the proposal to strip Rosca and Sacareanu of their immunity and one abstained. Nationalists and centrists boycotted the vote.
Rosca and Sacareanu, the driving force behind the rallies, face charges of organising illegal street demonstrations and involving children in politics and could be sentenced to up to two years in prison.
Schoolchildren and students have made up the majority of protesters at the rallies against the Communist leadership of one of Europe's poorest countries.
Nationalists intensified their rallies this week with round-the-clock protests, erecting about 20 tents near the presidential building in the centre of Chisinau on Sunday night.
The protests, which brought 50,000 people together at the weekend, were sparked by government plans to force schools to teach Russian alongside the national language Moldovan -- identical to Romanian. Most young Moldovans want to preserve cultural links with Romania.
Their strength dwindled last month after the government scrapped the plan, but picked up after the disappearance of opposition deputy Vlad Cubreacov on March 21.
The opposition says Cubreacov vanished after a driver dropped him off outside his home. The police have found no trace of him.
10:50 04-04-02
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