For the second time in five years, political events in Kyrgyzstan shook the Central Asia region and caught the international community off-guard. In early April 2010, a few sporadic protests against increases in electricity tariffs quickly mushroomed into a series of anti-government demonstrations that toppled the regime of Kyrgyzstan’s President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Just two months later, during the rule of a weak interim government, ethnic violence among Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan on a scale not seen since the late Soviet period. […]
Memo #:
140
Series:
2
PDF:
PDF URL:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pepm_140.pdf
