More than thirty people accused of wanting to “organize riots and a coup” in Kyrgyzstan have been arrested, announced on Tuesday the GKNB, the secret services of this Central Asian republic plagued by regular political unrest.
” The State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic has (…) 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 “, is it indicated in a press release, which specifies that the “ more than 30 people arrested on 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 brain 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 had to “ soon to receive funding from abroad “.
On Monday, videos released 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 further details.
Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic allied with Russia and getting 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 a few days barely after European Council President Charles Michel’s visit to Kyrgyzstan, during which President Sadyr Japarov assured that he was “ ready to work hand in hand with the European Union “.
(With AFP)