Secret documents reveal Communist persecution of April protesters: teachers and student were expelled and warned

The Filat cabinet has decided to release a number of secret documents put together by the Communists when they were in power.

A set of these indicate that the former ruling party initiated a series of persecutions of teachers, professors, and students after the April events in 2009. Many students participated in anti-Communist demonstrations at the time, and the Communists have always accused both teachers and students of being too critical of the Government.

According to a document, two students at the Academy of Economic Studies in Chisinau were expelled, as was the head of a college in the capital. Numerous others were warned and sactioned.

Another document reveals attempts by the Communists to find a way to force the protesters or their parents to pay for the damage caused by vandalism on April 7.

A third one shows a message from the Interior Ministry to then-deputy Prime Minister Victor Stepaniuc. Mr. Stepaniuc apparently gave a list of students to the Ministry and asked them to investigate whether the students were involved in the protests. The reply says that "the Ministry has no information about the involvement" of the students.

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