From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 13:27:05 EDT
RFE/RL KYRGYZ NEWS
23 MAY 2002, THURSDAY
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A Daily Review of News from Kyrgyzstan
1. Kyrgyzstan deports two Uyghurs to China.
2. Presidential administration acts against parliament.
3. Dismissed local official on the Aksy tragedy.
4. Government to bolster state media.
5. Deputy Beknazarov: people need real changes.
6. Police prepares to trial against Deputy Beknazarov.
7. Human rights activists in Jalal-Abad are warned.
8. President Akayev meets his foreign adviser.
9. British diplomat to Kyrgyzstan.
10. Defense Ministry officials is accused of illegal arms selling.
1. KYRGYZSTAN DEPORTS TWO UYGHURS TO CHINA. Omurbek Egemberdiev of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced in Bishkek on 23 May that
the Kyrgyz authorities deported on 21 May the two ethnic Uyghurs to
China. According to Egemberdiev, Ogut Nevzat, 27, and Mamed Yasin,
28, were detained in Kyrgyzstan on 8 May and are allegedly accused
of playing a role in the killing of Chairman of the Ittipak Uyghur
Association in Bishkek in March 2000 and in the later killing of a
member of a Chinese trade delegation, also in Bishkek.
Ogut Nevzat had a Turkish passport and his real name is Mamat Sadyk.
According to Egemberdiev, his Turkish passport is faked one. Mamed
Yasin is a citizen of China and visited Kyrgyzstan in 1997 first.
Both of them are suspected members of the Eastern Turkestan
Liberation Front, a group that seeks independence for China's
western Xinjiang Province, the traditional home of the Uyghur
people. The Chinese government calls the group Muslim separatists.
2. PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION ACTS AGAINST PARLIAMENT. Deputy
Ismail Isakov disclosed at a parliamentary session on 23 May a
document, signed by former head of the presidential administration
Amanbek Karypkulov. It was a four-page plan of measures to stabilize
situation in the country and some its points were devoted to
measures aimed to discredit some deputies of parliament, organizing
"offensive influence" on them and letters and telegrams from voters
to recall them from parliament.
The officials responsible for implementation of the plan were named
in it. Among them were Karypkulov himself, State Secretary Osmonakun
Ibraimov, Secretary of the Security Council Misir Ashyrkulov,
advisers to the president Askar Aitmatov and Bolot Januzakov,
Minister of Foreign Affairs Muratbek Imanaliev, Interior Minister
Temirbek Akmataliev, Director of the National Security Service Kalyk
Imankulov, Prosecutor General Chubak Abyshkaev, presidential
representative to the parliamentary lower chamber Usup Mukambaev,
presidential press secretary Ilyas Bekbolotov , and others
Acting Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev, as well as Ibraimov,
Ashyrkulov, and Imankulov told the parliamentarians on 23 May that
they saw the documents for the first time and that it was a forgery.
Ibraimov said Karypkulov never had any rights to give orders to him.
Karypkulov was dismissed from his post at a meeting of the Security
Council on 22 May.
3. DISMISSED LOCAL OFFICIAL ON THE AKSY TRAGEDY. Former head of the
Aksy district administration Shermamat Osmonov told RFE/RL
correspondent on 23 May that he attended a phone conversation
between former governor of Jalal-Abad Province Sultan Urmanaev and
former head of the presidential administration Amanbek Karypkulov on
15 March. Urmanaev arrived from Jalal-Abad to Kerben, center of the
district, to meet on 16 March with supporters of arrested Deputy
Azimbek Beknazarov and Karypkulov ordered him not to meet any
protesters. Urmanaev departed to Jalal-Abad on 16 march.
People, disappointed with cancellation of a meeting with the
governor, marched to Kerben on 17 March and police blocked their way
near the Boz-Piek village and opened fire. Six people were killed
and about 20 injured.
4. GOVERNMENT TO BOLSTER STATE MEDIA. Acting Prime Minister Nikolai
Tanaev told the parliamentary session on 23 May that the government
lost the information battle during the Aksy events. According to
him, local residents got information from the independent papers and
radio stations only. Tanaev said the National TV and Radio
Cooperation is not able to cover some areas of the country and
people read and listen to the independent media instead. According
to him, the government plans helping the corporation to get more
transmitters and would resolve the problem of delivering the state-
run papers to all regions and districts of the country.
5. DEPUTY BEKNAZAROV: PEOPLE NEED REAL CHANGES. Chairman of the
parliamentary committee on legality and court reforms Azimbek
Beknazarov told RFE/RL correspondent on 23 May that Aksy residents
are not satisfied with the decision taken at the Security Council in
Bishkek on 22 May. According to him, people need real changes and do
not want to stop their awaked activity. They also demand to acquit
and release Japaraly Kamchybekov, who was jailed last December to be
a reason to arrest Beknazarov.
People also dissatisfied that President Askar Akayev did not accept
resignation of Prosecutor General Chubak Abyshkaev on 22 May.
According to Beknazarov, Abyshkaev told the parliamentary session on
11 January that arrest of Beknazarov was a right decision and
defended other officials who arrested him. Now, Akayev asks
Abyshkaev to complete investigation of the Aksy tragedy. People fear
that Abyshkaev would not make fair investigation.
6. POLICE PREPARES TO TRIAL AGAINST DEPUTY BEKNAZAROV. A special
police team led by Deputy Interior Minister Kalmurat Sadiev departs
from Bishkek to the southern Jalal-Abad Province on 23 May to keep
order during the trial against Deputy Azimbek Beknazarov. The trial
resumes in the town of Kara-Kul on 24 May. His supporters also plan
going to Kara-Kul and hold there protest pickets demanding to acquit
him. Beknazarov is accused of power abuse seven years ago, when he
was an investigator at a district prosecutor office. Trial began on
12 March and was interrupted by the bloody events in Aksy.
Beknazarov criticized President Askar Akayev seriously for
transferring Kyrgyz territories to China and was arrested in the
Aksy district of southern Jalal-Abad Province on 5 January 2002.
Human rights activists and his voters held long-lasted protest
actions around the country in January-March and Beknazarov was
released on 19 March, after tensions in Aksy grew when the police
killed six his supporters on 17 and 18 March.
7. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN JALAL-ABAD ARE WARNED. According to the
Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights, the local prosecutor office
warned its coordinator in the southern Jalal-Abad Province Edil
Korgoldoev and two other human rights activists Meder Usanov and
Aleksander Sudakov on 23 May. According to the prosecutors, the
human rights activists organized unauthorized meetings in Jalal-Abad
on 27 April and 13 and 21 May and if they repeat it, there would be
consequences.
8. PRESIDENT AKAYEV MEETS HIS FOREIGN ADVISER. According to the
presidential press service, President Askar Akayev received in
Bishkek on 23 May his adviser Karl Haan from Germany. They discussed
perspectives of cooperation in agriculture and molecular genetics.
Professor of the technical University in Munich Gerhard Wenzel and
manager of the Oetker International Ost Comapny Michael Hinz
attended the meeting.
9. BRITISH DIPLOMAT TO KYRGYZSTAN. According to the Foreign
Ministry, a British delegation led by department head in the Foreign
Office John McGregor arrives in Bishkek on 24 May. He plans meeting
acting Foreign Minister Muratbek Imanaliev and Deputy Defense
Minister Asylbek Ormokeev and to discuss aspects of cooperation
between Kyrgyzstan and Great Britain as well as security situation
in Central Asia. An issue of opening a British embassy in Bishkek
would also been considered.
10. DEFENSE MINISTRY OFFICIALS IS ACCUSED OF ILLEGAL ARMS SELLING.
Omurbek Egemberdiev of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced in
Bishkek that a criminal case was filed on 23 May against Senior
Lieutenant Aidar Seidaliev of the Defense Ministry, who was detained
on 16 May when tried to sell a large amount of arms to foreign
citizens. According to Egemberdiev, former employee of the Foreign
Ministry Melis Berikbaev was also detained with four Afghani
passports.
(Compiled and translated by Naryn Idinov in Prague)
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