
The second day of the revolution, Bishkek met a looted in a haze of conflagration. The largest supermarkets were plundered in the capital at night, several of them were set on fire. From the beginning of the riots that last the second day in Bishkek, at least five people were killed.
During the mass riots in Bishkek, three people died on Friday night to Friday, a representative of the opposition headquarters on the live air of the Kyrgyz television. Earlier on Thursday, two people were killed during the clashes - one from knife, the second from a gunshot wound, the press service of the Kyrgyz Ministry of Health said. In addition, 367 people turned to medical assistance, 173 of them were hospitalized.
Tens of thousands of people participated in looting and plundered almost all large stores. (Details) The police are not visible in the city, people are surprised that law enforcement officers failed through the land, although on the eve of the night the pogroms the opposition appointed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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At about 01:30 Moscow time, troops appeared in the city. The military entered the streets of the city on trucks, while they, through megaphones, announced the introduction of a curfew and warned that they would be shot for looting on the spot. The order to terminate looting was allegedly signed by FelikC Kulov, appointed by the head of the power structures . Officially, the introduction of the commandant’s hour was not announced.
However, according to Newsru.com, a local resident Elena Skochilo, the emergence of military and police vehicles did not make an impression on the looters - they continued robbery.
“On local television, they say:“ Congratulations, the revolution won! ”, And today I don’t even know if I can be happy. The city is very restless,” says a young guy, an employee. “Basically, these were young people who looked like visitors. But our neighbors also endured things from here,” an elderly woman shakes her head in a colorful Kyrgyz scarf.
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A state flag does not operate over the presidential administration building with broken windows. A few tents are broken near the building, and people in civilian clothes, calling themselves a folk squad, go behind the fence.
The leaders of the youth avant-garde of the opposition "Kel-Kel" ("Go, go") in the morning air of the Kyrgyz television channel looked scattered. “Yesterday we made a revolution,” the girl in glasses and yellow tie of the opposition said without any enthusiasm.
One of the Kel-Kel leaders Timur Aisunov admitted that the seizure of government buildings was unexpected for them. "We knew that this (revolution) would happen according to the script of Ukraine and Georgia. But we thought to be commed and peacefully protest," Aisunov said on a morning live broadcast.
Revolutionary youth has liable for the past night to provocateurs and overthrown officials.
Then Aisunov, also in a yellow tie and a white T-shirt with the emblem of the Kel-Kel organization, turned to citizens in the Kyrgyz language, where only the word "revolution" was clear.
On Friday morning, the Kyrgyz parliament will gather for an extraordinary session, trying to form a temporary government and take measures to restore order.
Most stores and gas stations do not work in the city.
In Bishkek, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan is stormed. The parliament approved the acting President Kurmanbek Bakiev
About three thousand people gathered in the square, then surrounded the building from all sides and went to storm. The crowd broke the door in the building. The assault was stopped by the deputies who left the building to the protesters.
One of the demonstrators told RIA Novosti that some of the protesters want to expel deputies from the parliament building, and part to protect them. When the crowd began to break out the doors, many deputies hastily left the parliament.
The crowd was taken from the building as the leader of the opposition Kurmanbek Bakiev. He went to the protesters and called everyone to the square, where the rally was going through all this time, promising to speak with the appeal.
Meanwhile, the deputy, Aksakar Dooronbek Sadyrbaev, said at the rally that both wards of the Kyrgyz parliament approved Kurmanbek Bakiev as the acting president and Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan.
He acted in a rhizar, his speech was translated by the rally participants. The news of the appointment of Bakiev, acting The protesters met the president and prime minister.
The central square is located about 400 meters from the parliament building. Now a rally is starting there. Several thousand people chant the Bakiyev, clearly highlighting it among the rest of the opposition leaders.
The intensity of passions was asleep, the situation in the square is calm. People calmed down and look peaceful.
The parliament of Kyrgyzstan will consider the issue of introducing commandant in Bishkek
At 12:00 (10:00 Moscow time) a joint meeting of the two chambers of the parliament was scheduled. At the meeting, the question of the introduction of commandant hour in Bishkek and in a number of other cities of the country can be brought up. This was reported to "Interfax" a source in parliament. However, now the work is interrupted.
In Bishkek, urban transport works, both municipal and minibus. In the evening last Thursday, a meeting of the parliament of Kyrgyzstan did not take place. The meeting of the deputies passed behind closed doors, after which it was interrupted.
Also last Thursday, Izhenbai Kadyyrbekov was elected by the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Kyrgyz Parliament, sources in the Legislative Assembly said. According to the Constitution of Kyrgyzstan, in the absence of the president and the head of government, he will fulfill their duties. Kadyrbekov is one of the opposition leaders in the previous composition of parliament.
On Thursday evening, the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Nikolai Tanaev, resigned , and the opposition appointed the Provisional Government, the President and the new leadership of the Republic of the Republic.
To fulfill the duties of the President of Kyrgyzstan, by decision of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic, one of the leaders of the opposition Izhenbai Kadyrbekov will be. The Coordinating Council of National Unity created by the opposition will be entrusted with the powers of the Provisional Government. The Council is headed by one of the opposition leaders Kurmanbek Bakiev .
The leadership of power structures is entrusted to one of the leaders of the opposition Felix Kulov , who was released the day before from prison.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan partially closed the border with Kyrgyzstan . This was reported in the National Security Committee (KNB) of Kazakhstan, which is subordinate to the border troops of the country. It is impossible to completely close the border. “After all, there are diplomatic and business trips,” said the KNB press service employee.
With the onset of the night, the Bishkek Center captured crowds of marauders
The silence that came the day before, after the government building and the residence of the Presidential Administration was stormed, resulted in the onset of darkness into mass robberies, ITAR-TASS reports.
Crowds of young people armed with sticks, stones, chains robbed shops in the city center. First of all, shops belonging to Aydar Akayev (the son of the president) were defeated. Then, on the central streets, the Moroders began to smash and set fire to all the other establishments: TSUM, the branch of the local telecom operator, electronics stores, etc. On the central street of Sovetskaya there is a bell of glasses of broken shops and cafe. By the middle of the night, all the stores were defeated on this street.
Dozens of cars were loaded with their owners with televisions, household appliances, clothes, chairs and tables of looted buildings. Many looters drove up to shops in expensive foreign cars. They dragged everything that could be dragged. The owner of a black jeep stuffed a huge, shabby plastic shop just mined in a cafe.
“I could not even imagine what impunity does with people,” the taxi driver told ITAR -TASS.
According to Newsru.com an eyewitness to the events in Bishkek, according to the data of Moscow time, a crowd of marauders plundered the following objects:
- "Silkway" (shopping center)
- "Plaza" (shopping center)
- "People's -Plaza" (shopping center)
- "Thousand little things" (shopping center)
- "Betel" (shop of operator)
- "Trade House" (shopping center)
- Shop "People" on Akhunbaeva Street
- Beta Stores (Turkish shopping center)
- "Gain" (shopping center)
- "Svetoch" (clothing store)
- Madina market
- "Areopagus on Dzerzhinka" (electric vehicle store)
- Shop "Domino"
- SELA (clothing store)
- Bauflex (furniture salon)
- Hitachi (electrical goods store)
- Macburger (Toktogula and Sovetskaya streets)
- Euroasia (shopping center)
- Sports goods store
- Shop "Orchid" (at the intersection of Bokonbaeva and Belinsky streets)
- offices of mobile operators "Saimanet", "vonks" and "Beatel"
- Kelebe (furniture salon)
- Modart store at the intersection of Kievskaya Streets and Tolokok Moldo
- Voentorg
- Logic store
- Osse
- Boutique Andre Pauly
- Shop "Meder"
- Aqualand
- "Eurotechnics"
- "Photo goods"
- Aysat Systems office
- Diadora
- Intera DC
- "Planet of Electronics" (they carried out everything)
- "The Universe of Beauty"
- LG on Moscow
In many defeated shopping centers, a fire began. A strong fire is observed in the Beta Stores Turkish shopping center. Explosions and shooting were heard in this area. The Madina market is also burning.
According to eyewitnesses, explosions and shots rattled in the city from time to time, the crowd plundered weapons stores. Marauders beat glass in the windows of residential buildings. In the region of 2 a.m., shooting was heard in the South-2 microdistrict and in the 12th microdistrict of the city, an eyewitness of what was happening, a local resident Andrei, told Newsru.com. Earlier, ongoing shots were heard in the Vostok-5 area, the Madina and Tsuma market.
The looters moved around the city in crowds of several hundred people, some on horses, while smoking and settled everything that came under their arm in the way. There is no light in the central part of the city, Bishkek Street is covered with glass.
On the highway leading to Alma-Ata, there is a large stream of cars leaving the city.
In Bishkek, folk squads will be created to ensure order
Today, folk squads will be created in Bishkek to ensure order, the acting Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev to journalists on Friday.
"In the near future, folk squads will be formed to ensure order in the capital of Kyrgyzstan," he said.
"At present, the main task is to form a government, to ensure order and stability in the republic, especially in Bishkek," Bakiev emphasized.
However, he refused to comment on the possibility of introducing a curfew in Bishkek to ensure public order. He said: "The question of the possible introduction of commandant in Bishkek will be discussed."