Using modern social networking tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and text-messaging, an estimated crowd of 15,000 young Moldovans took to the streets yesterday in a protest against the country’s communist leadership.
On Monday, an organized gathering of two youth groups (Hyde Park and ThinkMoldova) for an event billed as “I am not a Communist” dispersed peacefully at the end of the day, but the discussion continued on in cyberspace.
Protests the next day got out of hand as individuals stormed the Parliament and presidential palace breaking windows and burning furniture.
The demonstrations were in response to elections this past Sunday where Moldova’s Communist Party won 50 percent of the vote, allowing them to make amendments to the Constitution as well as elect a new president.