Tiraspol - About 250 people gathered on Wednesday for a rally near a joint Russian-Transdniestrian-Moldovan peacekeeping checkpoint, near which a peacekeeper had earlier fatally injured a local 19-year-old driver, to protest against the peacekeeping operation under way in the region, the Joint Control Commission told Interfax on Wednesday.
The rally was attended by Moldovan Liberal Party leader and former acting President Mihai Ghimpu and Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca.
Vadim Pisar, 19, received a fatal gunshot wound at the checkpoint on January 1 after breaking through a checkpoint fence and ignoring a warning shot in the air.
Speakers at the rally demanded that the joint peacekeeping forces be pulled out and replaced by an OSCE mission.
The traffic in the area was blocked by the protesters for three hours.
Pisar was buried on Wednesday in the village of Pirita. An Interfax source said Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat was supposed to attend the funeral ceremony.
