The Kyrgyz “déjà vu”: will the new coup be the last one?

In February 2010 first public protests took place in Kyrgyzstan. People protested against the increase of housing and communal services cost, unprecedented corruption of administrative bodies, and persecution of opposition. On March 17 Kyrgyz opposition gathered a kurultai which categorically demanded the authorities to strip of power the most corrupted officials, including those belonging to the so called “Bakiyev’s clan.” Disorders started later, on the 6th of April, when another planned meeting in Talas turned spontaneously into a capture of the regional administration building followed by an announcement that Sheraly Abdyldaev and Koisun Kurmanalieva replaced the alternative positions of the governor and his deputy respectively.

On April 7, after disorders started in Bishkek and Naryn, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev imposed the state of emergency; and the police and special services arrested many opposition leaders. In return, activists of the take-over captured several high-ranking governmental officials, including the Kirgiz Minister of Internal Affairs Moldomusa Kongantiyev. During the vigil of the house of government aimed shots were made (probably by soldiers of National Guard), then began the assault. In the same time the building of Prosecutor General's Office was set on fire; the building of National Parliament was destroyed; and the television center was captured, which immediately started broadcasting programs with the participation of Bakiyev regime’s opponents. It was stated in the live television broadcast that “the power came to the people” and that the government resigned. The former government was replaced for six months – the term was claimed to be the period needed for preparation and carrying out of democratic elections – by “the government of national confidence” headed by the Kirgiz Minister of Foreign Affairs Roza Otunbayeva. As a result, diarchy was established in the country; it ended on April 15, when President Kurmanbek Bakiyev made the final decision to resign after Kirgiz security agencies, as well as the attitude of international community, went over to the caretaker government...
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