Instability in Kyrgyzstan: The International Response
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 4:00 am
Witnesses
Robert Blake
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia
Department of State
Arslan Anarbaev
Charge d’Affaires
Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic
Dr. Martha Olcott
Senior Associate
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dr. Bakyt Beshimov
Visiting Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The purpose of this hearing was for Commissioner Alcee L. Hastings and others to analyze the causes of a violent and fatal revolt against Kyrgyzstan's president in April of 2010, as well as the subsequent internecine violence that took place in the southern part of the country two months later; and to look at and discuss the prospects for better news in Kyrgyzstan's future. Kyrgyzstan's turbulence was traced to its history of corrupt authoritarian rule.
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