(3 Apr 2002)
1. Wide shot riot police
2. Wide shot riot police vehicles arriving
3. Various of riot police standing in front of hundreds of protesters
Night shots
4. Wide shot of police standing in line
5. Various of protesters setting up tent for the night
6. Protesters chanting slogans
7. Tent
8. Protesters sitting around fire
Day shots
9. Various of protesters
10. Banner
11. Protester wrapped in Moldovan flag
12. Tent
13. Wide shot of police standing in line
14. Various of protesters singing and chanting slogans
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox Pop
"We came to protest against the communist regime. It’s almost. It has one year. It has done a lot of horrible things. So, that’s why we are here to demand our rights, our basic human rights."
16. Various of protesters chanting slogans
17. Various of police running and forming human chain in front of Parliament
18. Riot police
19. Moldovan flag on Parliament
20. Police facing protesters
21. Protesters chanting slogans
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people camped out overnight in the Moldovan capital calling for the resignation of the pro-Russian Communist government
The protesters, many of whom had been on the streets for several days as part of an ongoing anti-Communist rally, blocked several major intersections, halting traffic for several hours.
The opposition Popular Christian Democratic Party, which organized the rallies together with about 15 civic groups and smaller parties, accused Communist officials of trying to end democracy and return the country to the Soviet-era of communism and Russian domination.
Protesters carried Moldovan and European Union flags and chanted: "Down with the Communists," and "Resignation!"
Police did not use force against the protesters.
A delegation of protesters handed parliament a request for the resignation of the government, lawmakers and the president, and for new elections.
They also called for outlawing the ruling Communist Party.
The protests against the ruling pro-Moscow Communists began in January when the government announced plans to make Russian an official language and mandated the study of Russian in Moldovan schools.
The government scrapped the Russian language requirement last month, but protests have continued to press for the government to resign.
Most of Moldova, a small and poor country of 4.5 million people sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, was part of Romania until 1940, and two-thirds of its people are of Romanian descent. It has a large Russian-speaking minority, mainly in Chisinau.
Communists, who won elections last year, favor closer ties with Russia.
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