{"id":165,"date":"2005-09-22T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=165"},"modified":"2005-09-22T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T21:02:08","slug":"hate-crimes-by-some-minority-russophones-against-members-of-moldovas-moldovanromanian-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Helsinki Committee on Russophone violence against the majority population in Republic of Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hate Crimes by Some Minority Russophones Against Members of Moldova&#8217;s Moldovan\/Romanian Majority <\/strong><br \/>\nDear Sir or Madam,<br \/>\nThe various CSCE reports make no mention of a fairly widespread problem that became substantially more acute after the coming to power of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova in 2001. I am referring to a number of hate crimes against the ethnic majority population of the Republic of Moldova, the Moldovans\/Romanians, particularly if they speak Romanian, committed by some members of the Russophone population. <!--more-->The details of a specific case appear below, in my letter to Minelres-L (Minority Electronic Resources), including the translation of an article from a newspaper, Jurnal de Chisinau, published today (September 20, 2005). This article details one of these recent hate crime against a pharmacy director who was simply speaking her country&#8217;s official language when serving the pharmacy&#8217;s customers, and was brutally aggressed for this reason. None of the perpetrators of any of these crimes have ever been discovered and punished, and frankly there was no real effort to find  them. The CSCE and the U.S. government in general, and the U.S. Embassy in Chisinau in particular, should bring this type of problem to the attention of the government of the Republic of Moldova. It should be insisted that measures should be taken to punish the perpetrators of these types of crimes, and that actions should be taken to prevent similar occurrences. As a naturalized U.S. citizen of Romanian ethnicity, I find this issue important.<br \/>\nSo do other Romanian-Americans. <\/p>\n<p>All the best,<br \/>\nIonas Aurelian Rus<br \/>\nPh.D. Candidate Department of Political Science Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 08901<br \/>\nFormer President of the European Studies Graduate Student Association (2001-2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate Crimes by Some Minority Russophones Against Members of Moldova&#8217;s Moldovan\/Romanian Majority Dear Sir or Madam, The various CSCE reports make no mention of a fairly widespread problem that became substantially more acute after the coming to power of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova in 2001. I am referring to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiubrega.com\/curajnet\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}