Archivo etiqueta «Kirguizistán»

By Thomas A. Daschle, a former Democratic senator from South Dakota, is a vice chairman of the National Democratic Institute (THE WASHINGTON POST, 17/09/10):

Kyrgyzstan rarely makes headlines in the United States. It is a small, landlocked country in Central Asia that is overshadowed by neighbors such as China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. When I recently visited Bishkek, the capital, it was clear that Kyrgyzstan’s strategic importance and democratic impulses deserve greater attention. At the same time, the people of Kyrgyzstan would rather be recognized for their democratic ambitions than as an asset in the war in Afghanistan.

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By Louise Arbour, the former UN high commissioner for human rights, a former justice of the supreme court of Canada and former chief prosecutor of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (THE GUARDIAN, 26/08/10):

There is a hole in the map of Central Asia where Kyrgyzstan used to be. A country once considered an outpost of relative tolerance and democracy in a region of dysfunctional authoritarian regimes is today a deeply divided, practically failed, state. If the international response to its descent into political chaos is not swift and bold, the consequences will be disastrous.… Seguir leyendo

By Anna Matveeva, a visiting fellow with the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics (THE GUARDIAN, 01/08/10):

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 … Seguir leyendo

By Kanat Saudabayev, the foreign minister of Kazakhstan and chairman in office of the O.S.C.E. (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 04/07/10):

The international community faces an acute test of its political will in Kyrgyzstan.

This small Central Asian country with a population of 5.3 million people is now in a deep political, economic and social crisis. As the tragic events of last month have shown, relations between the majority Kyrgyz population and some of the country’s minorities have started to fracture in the south leaving the interim government struggling to regain control and maintain a functioning state.

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By Paul Quinn-Judge, director of the Central Asia Project of the International Crisis Group (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/06/10):

A major crisis is taking place in Central Asia, but much of the world — and most governments — would prefer not to think about it. Kyrgyzstan has lost control of a significant part of its country.

Initial violence has caused many hundreds of deaths and, as of the latest count, over 400,000 refugees. This from a population of five million. The calm that has come over the area is temporary combat fatigue. Kyrgyzstan’s new provisional government is looking increasingly … Seguir leyendo

By James F. Collins, U.S. ambassador to Russia from 1997 to 2001 and now director with Matthew Rojansky, as deputy director, of the Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Program (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15/06/10):

Politically driven ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan has already claimed more than 100 lives and threatens to erase the country’s progress toward self-government following the April ouster of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

It is an ominous sign that a society which had undertaken impressive reforms aimed at creating the region’s first parliamentary democracy is now teetering on the brink of outright civil war and state failure.

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By Borut Grgic, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/05/10):

There are basically two schools of thought when it comes to explaining what happened in Kyrgyzstan in April. Proponents of the democracy school will argue that what we witnessed was a legitimate uprising against an unjust and oppressive regime set up by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The other school, the realists, will explain the April events as a coup against the government organized by a power-hungry opposition supported and financed from the outside.

I was in Kyrgyzstan a few weeks ago, and there met with … Seguir leyendo

Por Francisco Veiga, profesor de Historia Contemporánea de la UAB y coordinador de Eurasian Hub (EL PERIÓDICO, 04/05/10):

Kirguistán, Kirguizistán o Kirguisia, de esas formas puede denominarse al remoto país centroasiático. ¿Qué ha sucedido allí? Tras un par de días de violentas manifestaciones, el presidente Kurmanbek Bakiyev abandonó el poder y se refugió en el sur del país, entre los suyos. A partir de ahí se inició un proceso de negociación y el resultado fue que el 15 de abril el depuesto mandatario dejó el país como resultado de las efectivas gestiones de intermediación internacional de los representantes de … Seguir leyendo

By Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington (THE WASHINGTON POST, 21/04/10):

Call it a Tulip Revolution in reverse. On April 7, widespread anti-government protests broke out in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Within two days, protesters had stormed government buildings and overrun state security forces, the country’s president had fled the capital for his stronghold in the south, and a new interim government had been formed.

The scene was eerily reminiscent of events five years earlier, when a wave of pro-democracy protests swept Soviet-era strongman Askar Akayev from power in a transformation … Seguir leyendo