"On the developments in Kyrgyzstan
Two sister nations have been made to confront each other and shed blood as a result of well-planned provocations and plots designed and executed in a very professional way. These two nations have lived together as brothers and sisters throughout our history and shared the same homeland and culture....
We pray that the solidarity between these two sister nations may last forever in peace and that they do not fall prey to incitement again. We hope that days of peace and serenity come and bring bliss to our country."
Not with the CIA roaming around the southern part of the place.
Also see: Globe Still Seeing Red In Thailand
Seems to be a pattern with the paper, doesn't it?
A CIA coup attempt fails and they drop the ball.
And what has my MSM newspaper -- New England's largest -- been telling me?
"Kyrgyz leader vows to bring stability" by Peter Leonard, Associated Press | July 4, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The country’s provisional leader, Roza Otunbayeva, was sworn in as president yesterday, ushering in what the turbulent Central Asian nation’s government hopes will be a new era of stability and democratic freedoms.
Speaking after her inauguration, Otunbayeva, 59, hailed what she described as a momentous new era for Kyrgyzstan, which has endured months of political and ethnic violence since the former president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was deposed in a bloody uprising in April amid widespread anger over falling living standards and corruption....
Over the course of her tenure as caretaker president, which lasts through to the end of 2011, Otunbayeva will oversee the implementation a newly adopted constitution. The new founding law dilutes presidential powers in favor of a European-style parliamentary system and has raised hopes Kyrgyzstan could become former Soviet Central Asia’s first true democracy....
Before addressing some of her loftier ambitions, Otunbayeva will need to deal with the aftermath of ethnic clashes between majority ethnic Kyrgyz and the Uzbek minority last month that left much of the southern city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest, a smoldering ruin....
The official death toll from the violence in Osh and nearby Jalal-Abad stands at around 300, although Otunbayeva has said that as many as 2,000 people may have died. Most of the unrest involved mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz trashing and setting fire to ethnic Uzbek neighborhoods, and some 400,000 people were displaced.
Despite expressing her sorrow for the events, Otunbayeva has consistently stopped short of addressing the ethnic roots of the problems and the intercommunual tensions plaguing the south.
So has the MSM.
Before the inauguration, there had been some fears of a violent disruption, but the ceremony proceeded without event.
Otunbayeva’s inauguration as president marks a vital turning point for the interim government, which has been systemically weakened by a perceived lack of political legitimacy.
In a national referendum last week, more than 90 percent of voters approved keeping her on as caretaker president and gave their support to the revamped constitution.--more--"
Yeah, we just keep getting CIA propaganda passing itself off as news:
"Uzbeks are targets of police abuse in Kyrgyzstan" by Michael Schwirtz, New York Times | July 15, 2010
MOSCOW — Police in Kyrgyzstan’s volatile southern region have been pursuing their investigation into the recent ethnic clashes that left hundreds of ethnic Uzbeks dead by rounding up more Uzbeks and subjecting them to beatings and other abuses.
Must be Bakiyev loyalists since the Uzbeks are getting a better deal from the new government.
The abuses raise further questions about the ability of Kyrgyzstan’s weak central authorities to control the tumultuous south of the country, where sympathies remain strong for the former president who was ousted in April, Kurmanbek S. Bakiyev.
Related:
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Reported by Human Rights Watch and acknowledged by the current government, the abuses come at a time when the new leadership is already riven by infighting ahead of parliamentary elections in October.
With several top ministers having resigned, citing the need to prepare for the vote, the interim president, Roza Otunbayeva, said yesterday she was forming a new caretaker government.
That doesn't look like infighting; it looks like they have important things to take care of.
The police actions could further inflame hostilities and possibly provoke new clashes, Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
CIA activate some cells did they?
The police “detain one or two people every day,’’ Anna Neistat, a researcher for the group, said. “And the vast majority of these people seem to be subjected to ill treatment and torture.’’
Who am I to criticize? I'm an AmeriKan.
Speaking from the southern city of Osh, where the worst of the deadly violence erupted last month, Neistat said she had documented more than 30 cases of abuse against Uzbeks in police custody, including the case of one Uzbek man who died after being held in custody.
A spokesman for Otunbayeva said that the government was making efforts to halt the abuses. At least three criminal investigations had been opened and 11 officers had been detained, he said.
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