My picture of Kyrgyz Acting President, published in La Presse on June 19, 2010.
Osh, Kyrgyzstan - Calm, moderate, asked. The Acting President of Kyrgyzstan is the opposite of his country. Yesterday, Rosa Otunbayeva toured ec lair in Osh, the epicenter of ethnic violence in recent days. Greeted by an angry mob, the former diplomat has sought to calm the spirits, which included a call for racial segregation. Our collaborator has followed.
When Rosa Otunbayeva happens, nobody applauded. But no one booed either. Citizens' complaints, however, are numerous in a country on the brink of civil war. But despite his low Authority, the interim president managed to escape the melee. The 59 year old woman is accustomed to negotiation. Since the mid-80s, Rosa Otunbayeva working in diplomacy. She was three times Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, including twice in critical times.
In the fall of the USSR in 1991, she took control of external relations of an independent country in spite of himself. In 2005, after helping the overthrow of Akayev popular by the "tulip revolution", it did so in hopes of reforming a corrupt and dysfunctional state system.
But his illusions of having rapidly changing flights, she joined her former ally revolutionary Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Last April, Chairman, became dominant after five years in power, was also ousted by violent riots that have 87 dead.
Surprisingly, the member Otunbayeva, the more moderate leaders of coup plotters, who was appointed to the interim presidency. His term was to last only six months, but due to problems that inflame the country since it was extended in May to December 2011.
immaculate in his dress, which is almost forgotten his discreet beige flak jacket, Rosa Otunbayeva clashes among his peers. From his positions as ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom in the 90s, she returned westernized. In the manner, tone, such as speech, it can take in Kyrgyz and Russian, but also in English, a language little known to his countrymen.
In Osh, the president came yesterday to listen to a devastated population and enraged. Kyrgyz and Uzbek residents of the country's second city accuse each other of being the source of violence that killed 192 people in under a week, according to a report very partial, probably "several times" to Notice of Otunbayeva. She even told the Russian daily Kommersant that it would multiply "by 10 official figures. This could increase to 2000 the number of deaths.
To cease hostilities, the provisional government was powerless, he recalled with vehemence representatives from districts in Osh. After defending its actions, Otunbayeva has listened for over an hour, taking notes, the fiery speeches of women and men, all ethnic Kyrgyz, like her. Given the tense atmosphere, the few Uzbeks present did not dare speak.
Several speakers called for an end mixed neighborhoods in Osh, the separation of the two historic communities of the city, and demanded that the president take stern measures against the minority.
"Come on, let's relax. Some of you are very emotional in their statements, and we do not need this," Rosa Otunbayeva sliced his turn came.
But in the street, the Kyrgyz crowd, brandishing photos of relatives taken hostage in areas of Uzbekistan, was even larger. And angrier.
In his little shoes, the Acting Head of State, hidden under an umbrella and protected by bulletproof briefcases of his bodyguards, was still required to speak. "I promise you peace two days. "
too long for the protesters. And the weakness of the presidency of this small woman is strong then emerged when she had to yield to the head of the Osh police, which wanted to regain control of Uzbek neighborhoods within 24 hours.
In the chaos of Kyrgyzstan, Rosa Otunbayeva has almost the weight of his conscience.
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