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127870
Mon, 06/14/2010 - 23:59
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Kyrgyz govt refutes allegations on seeking US military assistance.
BISHKEK, June 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Kyrgyzstan's authorities have not
applied for U.S. military assistance to settle the situation in the
country's southern regions gripped with violence, the interim government
said in its statement on Monday.
"Yesterday, the Foreign Policy website posted a feature that referred
to anonymous sources alleging that head of the interim government Roza
Otunbayeva had asked through unofficial channels U.S. military before
applying for help to Russia," the statement said. "We officially declare
that the Kyrgyz interim government has issued no request, either official
or unofficial, asking for U.S. military assistance."
Massive disorders and clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyzs flared
up in the country's second largest city of Osh overnight to June 11. The
following day the riots spread to the neighbouring Jalal-Abad region. The
state of emergency and curfew were imposed in the conflict-gripped areas.
On Saturday, interim president Roza Otunbayeva admitted that the republic
was unable to settle the situation and asked Russia for military help. She
held responsible deposed president Kurmanbek Bakiyev's brothers and
relatives for being behind this next round of violence. According to
Otunbayeva, they sponsored the organization of clashes and provided arms.
The former president however said he had nothing to do with the violence
in the republic's southern regions.
The Kyrgyz authorities have sent extra army and police units to Osh
and Jalal-Abad and authorized the use of arms in case of emergency. The
interim government has also legalized voluntary public order squads and
undertook to finance them. Kyrgyzstan's provisional government has ordered
a partial mobilization of reservists. All units of the national Armed
Forces were ordered to assume wartime posture.
According to latest reports, the death toll from inter-ethnic clashes
in Kyrgyzstan has reached 117. More than 1,400 people have sought medical
assistance, of whom 742 have been hospitalised, in the past three days,
sources in Kyrgyzstan's ministry of health told Itar-Tass. Many were
hospitalised with gunfire wounds. The list of those killed includes police
officers, a border guard, a lawmaker from the Osh Council, and an officer
from the emergencies ministry.
-0-ras/usn
applied for U.S. military assistance to settle the situation in the
country's southern regions gripped with violence, the interim government
said in its statement on Monday.
"Yesterday, the Foreign Policy website posted a feature that referred
to anonymous sources alleging that head of the interim government Roza
Otunbayeva had asked through unofficial channels U.S. military before
applying for help to Russia," the statement said. "We officially declare
that the Kyrgyz interim government has issued no request, either official
or unofficial, asking for U.S. military assistance."
Massive disorders and clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyzs flared
up in the country's second largest city of Osh overnight to June 11. The
following day the riots spread to the neighbouring Jalal-Abad region. The
state of emergency and curfew were imposed in the conflict-gripped areas.
On Saturday, interim president Roza Otunbayeva admitted that the republic
was unable to settle the situation and asked Russia for military help. She
held responsible deposed president Kurmanbek Bakiyev's brothers and
relatives for being behind this next round of violence. According to
Otunbayeva, they sponsored the organization of clashes and provided arms.
The former president however said he had nothing to do with the violence
in the republic's southern regions.
The Kyrgyz authorities have sent extra army and police units to Osh
and Jalal-Abad and authorized the use of arms in case of emergency. The
interim government has also legalized voluntary public order squads and
undertook to finance them. Kyrgyzstan's provisional government has ordered
a partial mobilization of reservists. All units of the national Armed
Forces were ordered to assume wartime posture.
According to latest reports, the death toll from inter-ethnic clashes
in Kyrgyzstan has reached 117. More than 1,400 people have sought medical
assistance, of whom 742 have been hospitalised, in the past three days,
sources in Kyrgyzstan's ministry of health told Itar-Tass. Many were
hospitalised with gunfire wounds. The list of those killed includes police
officers, a border guard, a lawmaker from the Osh Council, and an officer
from the emergencies ministry.
-0-ras/usn
