The White House has been stormed.

by buzzzzzz crackle buzzzzzzz - shhhhhh buzzzzz shhhhh cacacaa buuuusssssss Thu Mar 24, 2005 15:38

says that the "not in charge anymore" president is hiding in the Kant Russian Military Base. so reporteth Anadolu News Agency (aa) and Zaman.
The americans of course are busy thinking about Easter, having killed some Taliban kids, and why have they raised two succesive generations of occasional junior cert murdering psychopaths.
So they haven't got tough yet.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=6791
now you might be interested to know that turkish as a langauge is the closest we get in the Union to the four main languages spoken in Kryzygykystystan. Imagine that. phone up mr Murphy in Vienna and tell him we have a chess playing turkish immigrant garda who'd love to listen to the radio for us.

by bollix bollix bollix bollix bollix bollix Thu Mar 24, 2005 17:40

confirms that the Kryzygystani leader of the opposition has been released from jail and that another opposition leader has been released from jail, and that (you'll get this) there really is no leader of the opposition.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1444837,00.html
= ah well nobody is in charge then
@ the Kyrgyz White House.

by ribbid rribbid rrrribbid rrrrriiiiibbbbbiiiiid Fri Mar 25, 2005 21:34

of Kyrzygykystan-
At least by the few thousand people in the White House. Kurmanbek Bakiev, who played a central role in the protests that brought down Akayev, said he had been named acting president.

"Parliament today appointed me prime minister and gave me the functions of president," he told
supporters in Bishkek.

That's nice. Bishkek is the russian speaking northern part of the country, which borders Kazhakstan where the legitimate president under international law is rumoured to have been transferred under russian protection from their air base.

We say "legitimate" because the Kyrzgyi ambassador to the USA has denounced the whole thing as a "coup d'etat" and like they have an airbase on the southern side of Bishkek.
He spoke to CNN so that's like network, so the influential citizens of Gilead who know where kyrzgykygistan are at this moment cutting up ribbons.

Analysts say there is little love lost between the key opposition leaders, with Kulov, freed from jail by protesters on Thursday, seen as more popular than Bakiev.
Most of the opposition leaders were themselves top officials at some time during Akayev's 14-year
rule.
Kulov was once police chief and head of the National Security Ministry, successor to the Soviet-era KGB.

Get that - there's one person dead in a city of 800,000 people, and that means nobody gets to say its a orange velvet revolution. I mean it took the lebanese three and half weeks to get to killing more innocent people.

And meanwhile the "people collectives" of the fundamentalist islamic south and the isolated mountainous north, don't really give a shit if the ex-police chief is calling himself the new police chief and seeing how many old regime types will remain loyal.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5629632
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5628860

there come's a point doesn't there?

by swiss people - "if I put an apple on your head would you mind if I shoot it off?" Sat Mar 26, 2005 13:57

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) said it had suspended projects in the south of the country and advised Swiss nationals "apart from those mediating between the authorities and the opposition" to remain at home and not consider visiting Kyrgyzkystan at this time or goto neighbouring Kazakhstan which has better weather in any case.

About 60 Swiss citizens live in Kyrgyzstan and work for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
[ c/f photo of maoist rebel chap in the article "nepal" comment 28 http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68469

and the others work for SDC, Seco who fund a number of projects in Kyrgyzstan to the tune of SFr19 million ($16 million) (approx 14 million irish euros) a year, focusing mainly on health, good governance and conflict prevention.
Kyrgyzstan falls into the "Helvetistan" group of nations, represented by Switzerland at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

http://www.nzz.ch/2005/03/26/eng/article5631105.html

ICRC has visited hospitals in the capital and though reporting around 60 wounded, have not seen gun shot injuries and -
"The events of the past few days do not constitute a conflict situation," said ICRC spokesman Vincent Lusser.

_
Meanwhile The English Guardian reports that a semblance of calm has returned to the city of Bishkek, after all the dhrink has finally been looted and the various factions ponder what they've really done. And did they really want to overthrow the government and accordingly cut off all their aid at all at all at all. But still it looked nice. "white house stormed". No-one has yet asked George Soros how to get all this translated into the little known turkic dialect spoken in the smack producing south of Krygyzykyqystan and make it effective. But it doesn't really matter becuase no journalists or back packers are going down that way in a hurry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4893466,00.html

why yes. indeed :-

"The U.S. State Department said Friday that the Bush administration would work jointly with Russia to promote a ``sense of order'' in Kyrgyzstan. Spokesman Adam Ereli said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and they agreed on the importance of the rule of law, nonviolence and the support of the international community.''

Kyrgyzstan has been a conduit for drugs and a potential hotbed of Islamic extremism, particularly in the impoverished south. There was no indication, however, that the opposition would be more amenable to Islamic fundamentalist influence than Akayev's government has been, or that its foreign policy would change significantly. "

by nkgygnk ygnkygnynk da kngygisky ygkny uçççk ññññwq Sat Mar 26, 2005 14:12

the offices of George Soros in Kryzgykystain are at this address-
http://www.soros.kg/
kg for "kilogram".

the last update was March 17th on a bride abduction movie. Nice to see you getting cultural George.

Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan
55A, Logvinenko St.
Bishkek, 720040
Kyrgyzstan
Phone: (996 312) 66 34 75, 66 34
Fax: (996 312) 66 34 48
Email: office@soros.kg
Executive Director: Mr. Medet Tiulegenov
Website: http://www.soros.kg/

now as the Kryzykystygyñçkistani rioters and looters cope with their hangovers and look for some quality pain relief, you've a new address to send postcards to. & we'll probably not read anymore bollix, ribbbbbbid, crackle hush bzzzzt shite next week.

by polarised Sun Mar 27, 2005 17:59

Both are led by "pro-russian" men.
One "pro-russian" is in Russia.
The other is in Bishkek.
Now here's something to help you understand the big world, coz we hope you never go to a war zone and that indeed another war zone doesn't come to €urope.
Whomever controls the police and courts has not only the power to go on telly and talktalk but they also have what it takes to write arrest orders. Which is why Kulov is important.
& here's another thing, - the people's assemblies of the south aren't represented at either parliament in Bishkek, they just use sharia law instead, which means you default on your mortgage or park your horse in the wrong place, they chop your balls off.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4895114,00.html

the place is a neighbour of China so read the chinese version as well-
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/27/content_2750937.htm

by - Fri May 13, 2005 11:03

Kyrgyzstan has closed its border with Uzbekistan in connection with the riots that flared up in the Fergana valley in the night to Friday. Border guard units have been put on an intensified regime of service.
Border crossing by people, transport and cargo has been stopped. The Kyrgyz border service is following up the situation in neighbouring Uzbekistan, its press service told the news agency KABAR.

ANDIZHAN, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed on Friday when rebels in the eastern Uzbek town of Andizhan broke comrades out of jail and seized a key government building, taking 10 police officers hostage. Around 2,000 protesters gathered in the centre of town and there was no sign of police on the streets. The violence, the worst in the authoritarian ex-Soviet state since bombings in the capital, Tashkent, last year, hit the densely populated Ferghana Valley, one of the poorest and most volatile Muslim regions in Central Asia. Scores of soldiers poured into the town in jeeps and trucks, but it was not clear who was in control.
Several buildings were ablaze in the centre of Andizhan, and its main local government building was occupied by the rebels. They held 10 police officers, their hands bound, inside the building, littered by broken glass. The Uzbek Foreign Ministry, which denied the seizure of government buildings, said nine people had been killed and 39 wounded during an attack on a police station and military unit, and said negotiations were underway with the rebels.
The corpses of three civilians, including one woman, and one soldier lay in pools of blood on Andizhan's streets. The soldier, killed by a gunshot wound, was lying face down by an armoured vehicle outside the security services headquarters.
Sporadic automatic gunfire could be heard, and buses and trucks had been parked to block streets leading to the centre.
In Tashkent, guards outside the Israeli embassy shot dead a man who acted in a suspicious manner and ignored orders to stop, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. Israel Radio said he was a suspected suicide bomber. Suicide bombers targeted both the Israeli and U.S. embassies in Tashkent last year. The United States has a military air base in Uzbekistan and has hailed Uzbekistan as an ally in its war on terror. Uzbekistan, an impoverished agrarian state of 26 million, has come under criticism from Western human rights groups for the mass jailing of Muslims who do not subscribe to state-sponsored Islam. (((what is the Russian / Kremlin position on the Holy Koran?)))
The Andizhan rebels, some of whom broke out of jail where they were being held during a trial on religious extremism, demanded Russian mediation to avert further bloodshed.
"This is the limit. Our relatives started to disappear," one rebel leader, who declined to give his name, told Reuters inside Andizhan's administration building. He said he had been freed from jail.
"We suffered too much, people have been driven to despair, it has to be stopped."
The rebel leader, demanding a ceasefire and the release by authorities of Akram Yuldashev, a Muslim theologian, called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to mediate.
The violence comes after a rare protest this week by hundreds of people demanding the release of 23 jailed Muslims who were on trial for religious extremism.
The town in the densely populated Ferghana Valley lies 40 km (25 miles) from the border with southern Kyrgyzstan, where protests earlier this year led to a coup in the Kyrgyz capital.
Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, in power since Soviet days, has defended his hardline policies by saying he is fighting the rise of militant Islam. Russian news agencies reported he was flying to Andizhan on Friday.
Local inhabitants said a group of 35 insurgents had stormed a prison overnight and freed around 60 prisoners.

that's it you're not spreading your rioting anymore!

by checking our fingernails regularly before you go up the snot - tttyyyyy nose! Sat May 14, 2005 02:01

former Soviet states that speaks the same general linguistic block, as well as of course sharing russian as a minority ruling class language (5-12%) and a novel tendancy to get fundamental on the holy book thing, and we're not talking the da vinci code, (humour me and laugh). Thank you.
Hoping you've had time to read the article and all comments above, and thus start your preliminary module in mid Asia affairs, you will no doubt be asking the jolly good perenial Q - where's George Soros?
Well old Georgie, did run an office in Tashkent called the the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation / or OSI for short. But the Uzbeks refused his non-governmental organisation a license in 2004.
here's a link to the days back in 2001 when it was recruiting Uzbeki designers with the eye catching website design of a ladybird on a flower and running high schools and careers out of Mid Asia which yes is also former USSR and read the article above and all the comments.
http://bilim.freenet.uz/eng/activity/

here's the update:-
"Uzbek troops storm govt building seized by rebels"

By Shamil Baigin (writing for Reuters, isn't listed on the Soros Uzbek list)

ANDIZHAN, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - Uzbek troops on Friday stormed a state building held by rebels who had broken their comrades out of prison and led anti-government protests that left at least 10 dead.
According to scarce official reports, nine people died in the day of violence in Andizhan, a town in Ferghana valley seen by the government as home to Muslim extremists. But media reports suggested the number of dead could be much higher.
Rebels raided a police station and military barracks, freed inmates of a local prison and then seized the state building with 10 police hostages. Their action prompted thousands to protest and some demanded President Islam Karimov stand down.
"This is the limit. Our relatives started to disappear," one rebel leader, who declined to give his name, told Reuters inside the administration building. He said he had been freed from jail. "We suffered too much, people have been driven to despair, it has to be stopped."

Now coz I like you, I can offer you two slightly different directions both from the same newsite, reprinting the same newsorg (sweet isn't it?)-
1*
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5780373&cKey=1116014720000
2*
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5779439&cKey=1115925629000