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The 2012 Moldova security zone incident happened in the Transnistrian security zone maintained by the Joint Control Commission on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. On January 1, a Moldovan civilian drove through a checkpoint in the zone and was fatally wounded by a Russian peacekeeper. The civilian died a few hours later at a Chişinău hospital. His death raised tension between Russia and Moldova and has revived a decades-old debate over the presence of Russian forces in Moldova.〔The New York Times, (Shooting at Checkpoint Raises Tensions in a Disputed Region Claimed by Moldova )〕 The incident caused demonstrations in Moldova, in which the protesters demanded free passage through the security zone and the withdrawal of Russian troops. On 25 January 2012, a group of European parliamentaries issued a call to the participants of the 5+2 format negotiations to replace the current peacekeeping contingent with an international civil peacekeeping mission. A similar case occurred on January 27, 1995, when another civilian, Constantin Andreev, was fatally wounded by a Russian soldier in the security zone, between Dubăsari and Râbniţa.〔(„Pacificatorii” l-au împuşcat şi pe Constantin Andreev ) 〕 == The incident == The incident occurred at the 9th peacekeeping checkpoint on a bridge across the Dniester River, between the Transnistrian village of Pârâta and the Moldovan town of Vadul lui Vodă, early in the morning of January 1, 2012. According to reports, civilians Vadim Pisari and Constantin Bologan from the village of Pîrîta on the eastern bank of the Dniester drove a car to the neighboring town of Vadul lui Vodă. On their way to the town, they passed a bridge with a check point manned by a Russian peacekeeping contingent. The car did not slow down at the check point, rammed the check point's boom barrier, and broke through to the other side.〔Interfax: ("Berlin, Washington Call For Demilitarization of Dniester Security Zone" ), January 6, 2012〕 A short time later, Pisari and Bologan were returning to Pîrîta via the same route. When their car entered the bridge again, at 07:15 a.m. local time, the driver disobeyed repeated demands to pull over. Vyacheslav Kozhukhar, the chief of the peacekeeping force, fired several warning shots in the air, and, when those were ignored as well, shot at the driver’s side of the man’s car, severely wounding him in the back.〔Kyiv Post, (Moldova prime minister: Dniester incident must be probed jointly with Russia )〕 Pisari was rushed to the Emergency Hospital in Chişinău, where he died soon after a surgery was performed on his spine.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2012 Moldova security zone incident」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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