Kyrgyzstan's uprising PM dead President hostaged

[grandpakhalif]

Opposition followers killed Kyrgyzstan's interior minister, took the deputy prime minister hostage and captured state television in a deadly revolt Wednesday against President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. According to the interior ministry, at least 17 people had been killed while AFP reporters saw six bodies being carried out of the square near the presidential headquarters in the capital Bishkek. Duration: 01:02.

[Advo]

I swear to god, Kyrgyzstan population are the most gangster nation on planet earth, these niccas while getting gun down by snipers, kalashinkovs etc stormed their white house and ousted thier corrupt government, the crazy part was they were completely UNARMED

[AbdiWahab252]

Advo,

People power at its finest. But will the "President" who has not given up power make a come back from the South ?

[Advo]

Hell no man, not after seeing the countless police, army etc being disarmed and killed by UNARMED protesters. If the so called president is sane he wont

[AbdiWahab252]

Advo,

I disagree. He came to power in a revolution and like all revolutionaries, he won't quit easily. He will gather his kinsmen and make another attempt to seize the capital and turn the nation into another Somalia.

[LobsterUnit]

if only hawiye would have done their coup so efficiently and precisely...................

[siren]

if only hawiye would have done their coup so efficiently and precisely...................

Caqli dameer don't function well......

[LobsterUnit]

walal, it was a lil joke. i love all somalis.

[siren]

walal, it was a lil joke. i love all somalis.

Yeah sure....

[AbdiWahab252]

if only hawiye would have done their coup so efficiently and precisely...................

Caqli dameer don't function well......

Says the Kashmiri who can't make you their mind to be with or

[siren]

if only hawiye would have done their coup so efficiently and precisely...................

Caqli dameer don't function well......

Says the Kashmiri who can't make you their mind to be with or

AbdiHutu I don't think wax hawyie ka liita adoonyada ino joogo....iska amuus.

[grandpakhalif]

Siren thanks for bringing your primitive contribution to my thread

[AbdiWahab252]

Kyrgyz president refuses to quit

Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was forced to flee the capital Bishkek amid a bloody uprising, has insisted he will not resign.

In a series of interviews, Mr Bakiyev said he was in the south and would not leave. But he accepted he had lost control of the security forces.

The opposition, under ex-foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva, says it has taken full power.

The violent uprising has left 75 people dead and more than 1,000 injured.

Further sustained gunfire was heard after nightfall on Thursday, with Reuters news agency quoting the interior ministry as saying police were battling hundreds of looters.

'Repression and tyranny'

Mr Bakiyev, who came to power in a revolution in the Central Asian state five years ago, fled the bloody clashes in Bishkek on Wednesday reportedly to fly to the city of Osh.

“ A big role was played by people giving out money, handing out alcohol ”
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, speaking to the BBC

He told BBC Russian he was in southern Kyrgyzstan but would not disclose the exact location.

Mr Bakiyev said he was the legitimate president and condemned the uprising, saying "armed people are strolling the streets of the capital - stealing things, looting and pillaging, killing people. And this new 'interim government'... is completely incapable of imposing order - and they're simply blaming the president for everything."

But he added: "If this so-called 'temporary' government that has appointed itself is prepared to begin negotiation talks, then I'm prepared to listen to them."

In an earlier interview with Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio station he insisted he had "no plans" to leave Kyrgyzstan but admitted: "I don't have any real levers of power."

AT THE SCENE
Rayhan Demytrie, BBC News, Bishkek

With the exception of riot police who clashed with protesters near the offices of Mr Bakiyev on Wednesday, the police presence has been almost non-existent in Bishkek over the past two days.

In a small cafe, away from the city centre, I found a group of policemen in their uniforms chatting and smoking cigarettes. "We had no orders to act," one officer said. Most of the policemen even appeared to sympathise with the protesters.

After two days of mass protests, a night of widespread looting and constant gunfire, there is sense of chaos and uncertainty in Bishkek.

Mr Bakiyev's defiance followed a news conference held by Ms Otunbayeva in which she said her interim government - which would remain in power until elections are held in six months - was fully in control of the country and had appointed new ministers.

She said Mr Bakiyev was trying to rally support in his home region of Jalal-Abad and urged him to resign, saying: "His business here is over."

Ms Otunbayeva went on: "What we did yesterday was our answer to the repression and tyranny against the people by the Bakiyev regime.

"You can call this revolution. You can call this a people's revolt. Either way, it is our way of saying that we want justice and democracy."

The violence initially broke out in the provincial town of Talas on Tuesday and spread to Bishkek, where demonstrators marched on government buildings, and another town, Naryn, on Wednesday.

“ The opposition claim to be in control, but you can tell that there's no law and order. Our opposition is so weak, nobody believes them ”
Iskander Asanaliev, Bishkek citizen

Reuters reported scuffles in Osh on Thursday between hundreds of Bakiyev supporters and members of the opposition who had taken over a government building.

The BBC's Richard Galpin in Bishkek says that a source close to Mr Bakiyev said the country was deeply divided between north and south and that the president could still regain power.

Kyrgyzstan is a strategically important central Asian state and houses a Russian base and a key US military base that supplies forces in Afghanistan.

The US says there are "limited operations" at its Manas base but support for its forces in Afghanistan "has not been seriously affected".

TIMELINE: KYRGYZSTAN UNREST
# March 2005: Protests over disputed parliamentary election, dubbed the Tulip Revolution, lead to fall of President Askar Akayev; Kurmanbek Bakiyev appointed acting president and PM
# July 2005: Mr Bakiyev elected president by a landslide
# May 2006: Mass protests demand constitutional reform and more action to combat corruption
# October 2007: Referendum approves constitutional changes, which the opposition present as a step towards authoritarianism
# December 2007: Mr Bakiyev's Ak Zhol party wins parliamentary poll; opposition left with no seats
# July 2009: Mr Bakiyev re-elected in vote criticised by monitors
# January 2010: Opposition leader Ismail Isakov jailed for eight years for corruption, sparking opposition hunger strikes
# April 2010: Clashes between police and anti-government protesters leave 75 dead

Ms Otunbayeva said the "status quo would remain" regarding the bases but that some questions had to be considered.

She also thanked Russia for its "significant support" and said she would be sending envoys to Moscow for talks.

Later another opposition leader, Omurbek Tekebayev, told Reuters that Russia had "played its role in ousting Bakiyev" and that there was a "high probability that the duration of the US air base's presence in Kyrgyzstan will be shortened".

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Ms Otunbayeva have already held telephone talks. An extra 150 paratroopers are being sent to Russia's Kant military base, near Bishkek.

Moscow has denied playing any role in the unrest.

In his Russian radio interview, Mr Bakiyev said the uprising would not have been possible "without outside interference". He refused to say which country might have been involved.

US President Barack Obama's adviser on Russia, Michael McFaul, insisted this was "not some anti-American coup".

A US envoy met Ms Otunbayeva late on Thursday in Bishkek, the state department said, and called for calm and the respect of "democratic principles".
KEY LOCATIONS IN KYRGYZ UPRISING
# Bishkek: Opposition claim to have control. Protesters still surround government HQ (aka the White House) which has been ransacked and part of it set on fire. Reports of looting in the city.
# Osh: President Bakiyev has a support base in the country's second city and is believed to be in Jalal-Abad.
# Naryn: Second day of unrest. New opposition governor installed.
# Talas: Uprising began here on 6 April. Interior minister beaten up by protesters on 7 April who stormed police HQ and installed new governor.
# Border with Kazakhstan is closed.
# "Limited operations" at US military base in Manas.

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Published: 2010/04/08 17:37:45 GMT

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[gurey25]

uzbekistans karimov needs the same treatment...

them problem is that he is too efficent and viscious.. he has already killed more than 3000 people in a single day
during the attempted revelution.