User:KazakhPol/Projects/Terrorism in Kyrgyzstan


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 * Banned Hizb ut-Tahrir holds festivities in Kyrgyzstan
 * Secretary of Russia's Security Council and Kirghiz President to discuss security in Central Asia
 * Central-Asian Collective Security Rapid Development forces start exercises in Kirghizia
 * Kyrgyzstan
 * Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan Join Forces Against Terrorism
 * Kyrgyz Police Suspect Muslim Clerics of Terrorism
 * Analysis: Extremist Threats, And Doubts, In Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
 * Kyrgyz police raid suspected Islamist extremists
 * 6 Suspected Kyrgyz extremists arrested
 * Central Asia: Fighting erupts on Tajik-Kyrgyz border
 * Central Asia: Hizb Ut-Tahrir's calls for Islamic State find support
 * Kyrgyzstan: Imam extends welcome to Hizb Ut-Tahrir
 * Uzbekistan: Ties with Kyrgyzstan worsen amid 'Terror' accusations
 * Russian general for joint CIS fight against terror, crime, drugs
 * Uncertainty dogs Andijan refugees
 * Is Kyrgyzstan a failed state?

''Kyrgyzstan witnessed a major terrorist incident in August 1999. A reconnaissance unit of the Kyrgyz government troops, numbering about 20 men, was taken hostage in the village of Karamyk. Further, on 25 August, militants seized four Tajikistan-controlled villages in southern Kyrgyzstan. According to Interior Minister Omurbek Kutuyev, the militants, on 24 August, seized the village of Darley, where two schools were blown up. In the same month, four Japanese nationals were taken as hostages by Kyrgyz fundamentalist extremists. In the month of August another incident, which shook the entire region and brought into light clear vulnerability of the republics, was the ‘Batken incursion’. A silent invasion of the Islamists in Kyrgyzstan began from the Garm are in Tajikistan in 1999, which is also known as the Karategin Valley. This sub-region has been a traditional base of the Islamic radicals as the massage of national reconciliation was not well received there. The presence of Uzbeks in Karategin was well known to the government in Dushanbe, but other countries were also informed that a large number of so-called refugees were actually from a group of terrorists headed by Juma Namangani. They took part in the Tajik civil war on the side of the Islamic opposition. About 1500 members of these terrorist groups who intruded into Kyrgyzstan formed the main force. While negotiations continued with the terrorists for the release of the hostages, the government took measures to locate the terrorists and mounted an army operation to destroy their base. On 13 August, after a negotiated settlement for a ransom of USD $50,000 and free passage to Uzbekistan, the hostages were released. On 15 August, Uzbek Air Force bombed the terrorist’s sites and the Kyrgyz troops began the second state of their operation for liquidation of the terrorist groups. The Secretary of the Council of Security of Kyrgyzstan, Esen Topayex, declared that as the terrorists had violated the laws of Kyrgyzstan, they should be punished according to the laws of the republic. On 22 August, a group of 30 terrorists occupied the villages of Zardaly and Khalja-Achkan, the camp site of the Japanese geologists’ exploration. The terrorists took the Kyrgyz General Shamkeev, one soldier and four Japanese geologists along with their interpreter as hostages. Leaders of the Kyrgyz law enforcement agency believed that it was the same terrorist group, which had entered into Kyrgyzstan from Tajikistan in 31 July. Other sources revealed that another group of 200 insurgents had entered Kyrgyzstan from Tajikistan to support the terrorists at Zardaly. On the night of 23-24 August, as the fight began east of village Kan, terrorists retreated by moving into deep gorges without suffering casualties, but there was no information about the hostages. The confrontation continued for two months, during which Kyrgyz troops appeared powerless to expel the insurgents from several villages. On the night of 24 August, terrorists blew up the bridge across the Sokh River, which connects the Canyon with Batken. The terrorists successfully evaded the government troops. On 28 August, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan confirmed that joint operations were being conducted against the terrorist groups in south Kyrgyzstan. The joint manifesto issued in the city of Osh at the meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs and defense, along with the chiefs of the national security services of the four Central Asian countries confirmed that the terrorists were supported by external forces. At this meeting, modalities of the joint action and the situation in south Kyrgyzstan were discussed. The meeting declared that the terrorist groups included not only people from Central Asian countries, but also nationals from many other foreign countries, which is exactly indicative of the pan-Islamic character of terrorism and extremist organizations posing a common threat to all the republics in the region. The participants of the meeting were convinced that the objective of the international Islamic terrorist groups was to destabilize the Central Asian countries who efforts were directed towards building and developing civilized, democratic, and secular societies. It was evident that the Islamic terrorists were trying to turn the clock back to the medieval age. The participants appealed to the people of their respective countries to stand united in giving a decisive rebuff to the provocative actions of the international terrorists. They also declared that the terrorist violation of the state boundaries and violence towards the peaceful population will be countered by hard and resolute actions in accordance with international law. President Akayev said that his activity was just not regional but global and Kyrgyzstan was being confronted with international religious terrorism and extremism. However, the confrontation which continued for two months came to an end when the insurgents withdrew after getting six million US dollars as ransom from the Japanese government to release the Japanese hostages.''