Posted by Admin on 2010/08/24
Dear HRW Reporters,
First of all thank you for writing the report on genocide and atrocities committed in Kyrgyzstan. It is important for international community to stop ignoring the facts and start acting immediately. As Louise Grogan puts it in Financial Times on August 17, 2010:
“In Kyrgyzstan, the Uzbeks of the south are now selling their houses for peanuts and leaving for Russia. The perpetrators of the massacres have not been caught, and indeed may be profiting handsomely in these sales. There are no peacekeepers on the ground, although satellite images of Osh have documented more than 100 “SOS” signs written by a desperate population.”
On page 4 of your report it is mentioned about May tragic events “…in late April and May the two groups locked into a spiral of increasing tensions.”
We found it very abusive not to mention the following fact: » Read more…
Posted by author on 2010/08/23
International Crisis Group
Bishkek/Brussels
August 23, 2010
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
An explosion of violence, destruction and looting in southern Kyrgyzstan on 11-14 June 2010 killed many hundreds of people, mostly Uzbeks, destroyed over 2000 buildings, mostly homes, and deepened the gulf between the country’s ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. It was further proof of the near total ineffectiveness of the provisional government that overthrew President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in April 2010, and is now trying to guide the country to general elections in October. Given the government’s slowness to address the causes and consequences of the violence, the danger of another explosion is high. Even without one, the aftershocks of the looting, murder and arson could seriously damage Kyrgyzstan’s ailing economy, cause a significant outflow of ethnic Uzbeks and other minorities, and further destabilise the already fragile situation in Central Asia in general. The route back to stability will be long and difficult, not least because no reliable security or even monitoring force has been deployed in the affected area. It should start with an internationally supported investigation into the pogroms, as visible an international police and diplomatic presence as possible to discourage their recurrence, and close coordination on effective rebuilding of towns and communities. » Read more…
Posted by author on 2010/08/22
Reporters Without Borders
August 19, 2010
Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the way the authorities are treating Ulugbek Abdusalomov, a newspaper editor based in the southern city of Jalal-Abad who has been held since June’s inter-ethnic violence and who is currently hospitalised with serious cardiac problems. He is being kept handcuffed and under constant police surveillance in the hospital. » Read more…
Posted by author on 2010/08/16
Human Rights Watch
August 16, 2010
Some government forces acted, knowingly or unwittingly, to facilitate attacks on ethnic Uzbek neighborhoods in the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Local law enforcement agencies also failed to provide appropriate protection to the Uzbek community, Human Rights Watch said.
The 91-page report “‘Where is the Justice?’: Interethnic Violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan and its Aftermath,” also said that the government’s investigation into the violence, which left hundreds dead and thousands injured, has been marred with abuses, while new ethnically motivated attacks are taking place in the south. The authorities should thoroughly investigate government forces’ role in the violence and prosecute those responsible, Human Rights Watch said. » Read more…
Posted by author on 2010/08/04
The Guardian
August 1, 2010
As donors pledge $1.1bn to Kyrgyzstan, and its president promises to use their advice as a road map, it has become clear that the country needs more than international money.
The problems gripping Kyrgyzstan have not gone away. The “7 April events”, as they have become known and inter-ethnic violence in the south were links in the same chain. A change in government deepened regional divisions and alienated many southern Kyrgyz who felt that “their” president Kurmanbek Bakiyev had been unlawfully removed by northern rivals. A taboo on violence was broken. » Read more…
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July 30, 2010
On the need for an international police force in the south
We, the undersigned members of the Public Commission for Investigation of Events in Southern Kyrgyzstan, express our profound concern regarding the persecution of and ongoing violence against ethnic Uzbeks in this region.
We are particularly alarmed to learn about the opposition of Kyrgyz politicians, including the governor of Osh city, Melikbek Myrzakmatov, the leader of the Ar Namis political party, Feliks Kulov and the leader of Asaba party, Azimbek Baknazarov, to the introduction into Southern Kyrgyzstan of an international police force under the auspices of the OSCE. » Read more…
Posted by author on 2010/07/29
July 28, 2010
The Kyrgyzstan government’s response to accusations of genocide has, from the beginning, been a classic example of the strategy of denial that accompanies every genocide. The strategy employs predictable tactics designed to obscure clear perception of criminal conspiracy with an ink-cloud of denial. The objective of denial is to paralyze the political will of those who might take action to stop the genocide and punish the perpetrators. » Read more…
