Title

Instability in Kyrgyzstan: The International Response

Tuesday, July 27, 2010
2:30pm
210 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC
United States
Official Transcript: 
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Members: 
Name: 
Hon.Alcee Hastings
Title Text: 
Co-Chairman
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Joseph Pitts
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Witnesses: 
Name: 
Robert Blake
Title: 
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia
Body: 
Department of State
Name: 
Arslan Anarbaev
Title: 
Charge d’Affaires
Body: 
Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic
Name: 
Dr. Martha Olcott
Title: 
Senior Associate
Body: 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Name: 
Dr. Bakyt Beshimov
Title: 
Visiting Scholar
Body: 
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.

Relevant issues: 
Conflict Prevention/Rehabilitation
Minority Rights
Relevant countries: 
Kyrgyzstan
Leadership: 
Alcee Hastings
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