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Kyrgyzstan's former president Almazbek Atambayev was arrested on Thursday (August 8th) during a new special forces operation in his home on the second day of a clash-ridden assault that is causing unrest in the Asian country. Central. Accused of corruption and in conflict with his successor, the former head of state was arrested in his home near the capital Bishkek, according to media 24.kg and Kloop.kg, the day after a first failed assault forces Special.
Almazbek Atambayev, the former president of Kyrgyzstan was arrested Thursday afternoon by the special forces. It took more than a thousand police officers to dislodge his supporters who had entrenched with him in his residence in the suburbs of Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital. Accused of corruption, he has always refused to go to court and speaks of a political trial brought by his successor, the current Kyrgyz head of state, Sooronbai Jeenbekov.
Kyrgyzstan specialist David Gaüzere, a researcher at Bordeaux 4 University, decrypts the situation in this Central Asian country. " At the end of June (2019), while the former presidents kept their presidential immunity, a law was passed in Parliament so that Mr Atambayev no longer had it (immunity). We see that the law is applied, that the security forces obey the law, but that this law has been more or less diverted in order to eliminate its opponents. First, the former Prime Minister, then other political opponents and now former President Atambayev. Except that we must not forget that in his time, President Atambayev had put some political opponents in prison. During his presidency, Mr. Atambayev was still able to develop the country's public infrastructure, a middle class emerged. The current crisis has put a brake on all this, including foreign investment .
Victim of his foal ...
Almazbek Atambayev, 62, president from 2011 until the end of 2017, was indicted late June for corruption by the Kyrgyz justice. His immunity as a former President was therefore lifted by the deputies. The former head of state is suspected of " illegal acquisition of land " and to have released a member of a mafia clan, charges he denounces as a political maneuver of the new president, his rival Sooronbai Jeenbekov.
At the end of his term, however, Almazbek Atambayev had won the price of political maneuvering to impose the candidacy of Sooronbai Jeenbekov , who was then his colt, but the relationship quickly deteriorated between the two men.
Their personal conflict now raises fears of serious unrest in the former Soviet republic of Central Asia, which is plagued by frequent ethnic tensions.
During Thursday's assault, a member of the special forces was killed and a regional police chief was seriously injured. According to the Attorney General, a total of 23 civilians and 24 members of the security forces were hospitalized. The Ministry of Health said Thursday that some of the civilians had gunshot wounds.