Passing Osh

The new authorities of Kyrgyzstan, who came on a wave of popular anger, are finding it difficult to stay at the top. In the south of the country they are opposed as actively as their supporters opposed the regime of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who fled the country. On the morning of May 13, in the regional center of Osh, opponents of the new leadership seized the local administration building, broke the windows on the first floor and returned the former governor Mamasadyk Bakirov. The new governor, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, elected by the interim government, is not in the building. Several thousand supporters of Bakirov gathered in the square in the center of Osh, who claims that they do not support the previous government (although Bakiev appointed him to this post), but oppose the current interim government. The police don't interfere.

Opponents of the interim government are also rallying in Jalal-Abad in southwest Kyrgyzstan; they are opposing the current governor, Bektur Asanov.