Kyrgyzstan: thirty people arrested for "coup attempt"
More than thirty people accused of wanting to "organize riots and a coup" in Kyrgyzstan have been arrested, announced Tuesday the GKNB, the secret service of this Central Asian republic plagued by regular political unrest.
Ala-Too, the central square of the city of Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan GNU Free Documentation License
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The State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic (...) dismantled the illegal activities of a group of people who were carrying out clandestine preparations to organize riots in the country in order to seize power by force ", it is indicated in a statement, which specifies that the "more than 30 people arrested Monday have confessed".
The leader of the political party "Eldik Kenech" (People's Council), not represented in Parliament, is accused by the GKNB of being the mastermind of this group of more than 100 people and of having organized "clandestine meetings to discuss plans to seize power by force". The GKNB assures that the incriminated group was to "soon receive funding from abroad".
On Monday, videos published by local media showed armed men arresting individuals. In the evening, the official Kabar news agency confirmed that the GKNB was carrying out arrests, without elaborating.
Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic allied with Russia and moving closer to China, has experienced multiple political crises with three revolutions (2005, 2010, 2020) since the fall of the USSR in 1991. These arrests come just days after the visit to Kyrgyzstan of the President of the European Council Charles Michel, during which President Sadyr Japarov had assured that he was "ready to work hand in hand with the European Union".
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With AFP)
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