Report published The Cross in June 28, 2010.
(Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) The voters have spoken yesterday by referendum for the establishment of a parliamentary democracy, to restore stability.
At polling station in School No. 24 in the center of the capital, Bishkek, the speakers spit an instrumental version of Indian Summer Joe Dassin to encourage voters to cast their votes in ahead the ballot box. On everyone's lips, four words: stability, peace, order and legitimacy. The message from the Acting Chair Rosa Otunbayeva is probably past the referendum on the new constitution will give his government, the coup d'état of April 7, the legitimacy it needs until the parliamentary elections in September. It will seek to restore order, peace and restore stability in Kyrgyzstan.
All electors met yesterday morning said they had voted for the new Constitution, which proposes to increase the small former Soviet republic in Central Asia of a presidential system to a parliamentary system. None, however only support unconditionally to the Provisional Government. "It is still better than the Bakiyev regime! Aïnagoul Doboulbekova launches, controller in an electrical substation, referring to the ousted president two months ago and a half. They, at least they have some conscience and are proud of their people. "
" If they had not made their coup, there would never have had all these victims in April (note: 87 dead), said Lyubov Derkach, who came to vote with her 4 month old. But at the same time, they never succeeded in taking power in another way. Bakiyev was installed for life. "The president Otunbayeva repeated for weeks that the new Constitution is the only chance to restore stability. A parliamentary system prevent concentration of power in the hands of one person. That is why Rosa Otunbayeva insisted that the exercise takes place as scheduled, despite the violence that struck the south and left more than 400,000 refugees and displaced persons.
Also, everything has been done to ensure maximum participation of voters. Given the number of displaced people and people who have lost their documents, every citizen could vote at any polling station in the country without identity papers, provided they are recognized by two members of the Committee election. In the South, brigades of mobile ballot boxes have been organized vote for those who feared to leave their homes.
ethnic Uzbek refugees huddled in camps in Uzbekistan have been repatriated this week, sometimes against their will, according to Amnesty International, so they can participate in the referendum. Kyrgyz political scientist Nur Omarov doubt however that the new Constitution is sufficient to ensure a bright future in Kyrgyzstan: "The important thing is not the kind of republic we have, but people who are in power. And for now, he says, most contenders for high office are bosses from previous regimes who seek to regain their place.
In the south, the vote was held under heavy guard. If the violence continued between the majority Kyrgyz and the Uzbek minority, the situation remains tense. The trigger unrest that killed at least 264 deaths remains a mystery. Kyrgyz security services did announce on Thursday the findings of their investigation: family Bakiyev has financed Uzbek Islamist linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan so they plundered the South in order to derail the referendum process and to bring to power former president.
If the idea of involving clan Bakiyev can not be excluded, the Uzbek Islamists is far-fetched, according to numerous testimonies collected by La Croix last week in Osh, the epicenter of violence. Photos and videos taken in this city by foreign tourists during the clashes clearly show the ethnic groups in Kyrgyzstan looting the city as well as police and military liabilities, if not complicit.
The possible complicity of the police suggests that members of the provisional government having control over the police and army could be responsible for the violence. The disagreement within the government, made up of different political opposition is an open secret in Bishkek. If an external force does not usurp the power of low Rosa Otunbayeva, the outbreak could still come from within.
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