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a decade ago but sauce khan's lawyers say it's slander and will soothe. and there is a worry and eastern europe over abortion neighbors to serve all those operations are anxious over romania's in pleasing plans for the place the romanian activists say they're historically linked and better off together. so the top stories next where we visit here to stay and to assess his post soviet existence after a year that seemed violent as the conflicts and revolution. kurdistan the central asian country and former soviet republic. in the space of just five years this state has gone through two revolutions become tree is divided into two parts both by the mountains and by the unresolved conflict

between the developed north and i could cultural south. and kurdistan overcome its political and ethnic standoff could there be a repetition of spontaneous riots involving a mass loss of life. and . tucked away in the mountains one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital bishkek is the village of act shows at best only six hundred villagers are left here now. but when kurdistan was part of the soviet union people from all over the republic were eager to come here. with the weather these are mine turning as the or was taken from them in the open pit of heavy duty delos trucks brought in from there as you can see the roads are still here in soviet times they produce three hundred tons

a day of their time all arcturus religious work here but even that was not enough so they brought workers from other places you know what about you the head of administration is showing the former pride of the village the factory producing uranium or. the war from the open pit was brought here it was processed and sent to the laboratory for further tests that. fell into decay in the first months after kurdistan secession from the soviet union extracting the hazardous or was no longer worthwhile as there were no buyers most of the villages inhabitants left it within a few years those who stayed behind had to learn to survive amidst high radiation levels and rampant unemployment. this is the sort of british is that we grossly are and this once a person makes. a tiny patch of land one back from the mountains a few sheep and two cows that's all but the only russian family left in the village

pastor survive on. sankoh and her husband worked at the factory until nine hundred ninety two. times i was sad and snowed only by the situation in elderly we see the same mess where are we going to this is very very sad. the factory was shut down in one thousand nine hundred two. many other factories inherited by the young state from the soviet union suffered the same fate. former soviet republic kurdistan won independence on august thirty first one thousand nine hundred one the country's population is five million kurds account for seventy percent of the total. mostly live in the country south make up its hundred percent well russians account for eighty percent of the country's capital is bishkek. with its president from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand and five. in march two thousand and five he was deposed during the so-called tulip

revolution from two thousand and five to two thousand and ten coming back but he was head of state he lost power following events on april seventh two thousand and ten. sharpshooters were firing from here they stood upright sticking out their heads they were there and they're everywhere. i have a was among the thousands who took to the streets of bishkek on april seventh two thousand and ten. those events were later the second card is revolution on that day demonstrators only want the authorities to heed their grievances their response was gunfire ah. here's a shot at us and pushed us back i thought i could said falling to the ground right here his leg was bleeding i cornered him with my body if you need to kill somebody

kill me he is not guilty. the protesters demanded the resignation of the country. these leaders especially president kurmanbek bakiyev. the irony of the situation was that five years before back here came to power in the wake of a similar uprising i. did she look revolution was the name given to the events when the first harvest president ask archive was stripped of power in two thousand and five this flower is one of the country's symbols. there were no fountains here back then but the square was absolutely flooded with people at the time. about twenty five thousand i think. we joined the crowd as it headed for the white house name. alexander even off remembers the great enthusiasm but engulfed people

gathered in bishkek central square in two thousand and five. the re-enforcement from the south came demonstrators broke into the presidential palace in bishkek. wonders but when we realized that the house of cards was falling apart. that inspired us with the hope that the president would step down. everybody was in a state of euphoria. when presidents a coyote left the country coming back here came to power. the euphoria of account tries to chill of revolutionaries began evaporating only a year later when the new president chose to pursue the same policies that eventually toppled his previous answer. back if top government posts to relatives and friends. in two thousand five hundred even over was a bucket of supporter unable to thousand and ten he joined street protesters once again. at that moment i already knew the situation and i said to myself

this regime will be toppled to either we get them all the room or they will simply be. torn to pieces. and i think it's a natural epilogue for my peers presidents say and then you have me it's a typical ending for a government which came too far of violently after the cool of the world in general all colored revolutions were performed by the same script will score from the rose revolution in georgia the orange revolution in ukraine and there to a group in kyrgyzstan out of the last one was virtually transformed into a cool name. meanwhile cargo planes were landing on the runway of a russian air base of cancer twenty kilometers from bishkek they were carrying russian reinforcements to the troubled republic the airborne battalion was sent to defend the base in case of danger.

thank you. our job is to protect installations which are situated in shared his territory. notably the current airbase affiliated facilities as well as russian citizens living here. or why did it appear. as a matter of fact russian military personnel had no problems in connection with the able whites. thank. you liz within the town of cancelling it was a special situation here. as far as i know there are no plans to close the base and indeed there's no activity against it with.

the us air base serves as an air mobility house aboard operations against them but that's just the support of those that are assigned here because a very good maliciousness with the local people this trailer is taken from the website of a us air base which is situated close to count strengthening bonds it shares a runway with menace international airport u.s. service men claim they get along well with the locals. the fact is however the villagers nearby are not as friendly as the americans claim they are plagued by the constant roar of cargo planes taking off several times a day. you know them but there is an airport near here most of the planes fly in some distance away and quite a few come here too and first lots of them flew around here when people started complaining they turn it down

a bit even so airplanes come and go around the clock. relations between locals and the u.s. military went downhill after a tragic incident between private sector rehab fields and a fuel serviceman truck driver. alexander even off was shot and killed by the private so on that day his colleagues came to me and said alexandre was shot dead by an american soldier what shot that's how come we don't know. it is still unclear why the private behave the way he did according to her field he fired in self-defense because he claimed even over attacked him with a knife however several pieces of evidence do not corroborate that theory. it's nonsense given that on xander was one hundred eighty centimeters tall and half built one hundred sixty four and this metal chair had a bullet hole in the back we were told that the bullets went from top to bottom which simply proves that alexander was something he'll. bishkek appeared to

a few public demands that the u.s. base be closed but mass is a crucial strategic hub for supplying coalition troops in afghanistan. the issue of the american presence became a bare faced bargaining chip in talks between the bucky of government and the us state department as such u.s. cargo planes continue to take off from curtis territory. those crew should have been brought to justice instead they contest elections we the young people of the cookies republic have been under the yoke of corrupt regimes for years we have fed up with the continuing cycle of deceit and we have taken part in the latest revolution to topple a criminal regime and pay for it in our blood. in two thousand and ten rallies in central bishkek became just as routine as the changing of the guards kurdistan's political life gathered strength following the second revolution it took scores of

political parties only a few months to emerge on the political scene in order to contest parliamentary seats. across specks of new elections inspired both hoping and. it was obvious to many that those who lost might stir up the people to take to the streets again that would mean another revolution and a new wave of violence. ah

. wealthy british style. but i'm not surprised. that. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on r.g.p. . it is four thousand two hundred meters above sea level while it is still woman bishkek two hundred kilometers from here. the weather was already cool of the from toward the plaza. this is the site of kurdistan's most successful industrial. giant trucks bring tons of fuel from an

open pit several hundred meters deep. this giant caterpillar can carry one hundred seventy cones. we now have thirteen. medium sized dump trucks i'm thirteen big ones. you know you can see some of the big ones behind me. thousands of tons of rock will go through a long treatment process to yield several kilograms of it rich to or. it will then go to the most important place in the factory the smelting furnace their gold will be extracted from me or. the missile because the residue is dried and regions are added to it and then it goes into this autumn where the temperature is one thousand five hundred degrees celsius to see if the gold is melted into

a half to three hours. every two days. today will produce four bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces all together through. the computer pitch the long straight canadian firm for that reason the production process follows western standards every single piece of equipment and even the workers close have been imported from canada. the staff enjoys high safety standards and is well paid many others would like to be employed here the enterprise is one of the largest sources of taxes for the country's national budget the factories managers have no interest in revolutions and elections taking down and they are confident that they will be able to come to terms with any regime that we have good cooperation. government cooperation. people. were. able to. contribute. to.

coal production accounts for forty percent of the country's industry but kurdistan is still largely ally grammarian country nearly half its population is employed and i for culture industry at best accounts for sixteen percent of the country's g.d.p. in the first six years of independence the gross domestic products dropped by half the country's external debt is around four billion dollars money sent by migrants working abroad is one of the main sources of revenue. like the comptroller cory this tiny enterprise lives of foreign investment but of a different kind in the past tourists were only too willing to buy locally produced carpets scarves and felt caps the items made by the small factory are quite costly because they are handmade. repressed fell three times by found to make it hard enough. we use diet felt to make has. it

is hundred made because we want to make sure that it was this where in time. before the april revolution the craftsmen had pinned their hopes on an influx of foreigners in the hope of amassing a handsome profit but the uprising did a lot of harm to their business tourists stayed away from the troubled republic. just frankly this year selling gold goods made of felt was a very tough job. on april the seventh and eighth we have stood our customers from switzerland. it's nearly every hour they received calls from the embassy telling them to stay at home. in october people expected a repetition of the disturbances that had taken place in april in the run up to elections the streets of major cities and small villages alike were plastered with

political propaganda posters back in the summer about a hundred political parties fight for seats in parliament but in the end only thirty parties were allowed to take part in the elections before the polls got underway they had been seen as a crucial event with far reaching ramifications for the nation they were to pave the way for a constitutional reform marking the transition from a presidential republic to a parliamentary republic. we will work in a serious and responsible spirit to make sure that the parliamentary elections do think they and are held in a peaceful atmosphere in conformity with the election. contrary to expectations the election passed off in a cam atmosphere when the votes were counted it became obvious that the pendulum of curtis politics had swayed again. the election to be won by the opposite party consisting of supporters of ex-president baqir who was deposed in april. the

leaders should stick their political ambitions up you know what and get down to economic matters and why because we have a deficit of nearly fifty percent of the total budget people all across the soviet union used to say that cuba's don was an owl of democracy. they describe their people as democratically mindedly. allemande buyable was one of those who helped bring about the april revolution she attended rallies outside the government building for three days in a row the protesters say they will not allow a counter revolution to happen that's how the people who are posed by kiev have dubbed the electoral victory of the as a short party our mouths were stolen by the other showed party those were unfair elections. this is the

kurdish version of a question polo the carcass of a gold is the ball in this traditional game game of both teams to kick the goat carcass into the goal him and back captain of the local team is a promising player but in april he took part in a far more fascinating competition involving a mass of people at that time he and friends went to bishkek to topple president back here in america maintains the card is politics and his favorite game have a lot in common. but. this game is like politics you two teams chase a goat it's almost like chasing power in bishkek it's the political technique of the game. local politics is based on a tense standoff between industrial regions in the country's north and impoverished agrarian regions in the south they represent two teams trying to seize power from each other. first card as presidents ask archaia comes from the north he was toppled by the south's common back but. strongly assume those are

a close knit community they help one another as best they can. fellow soldiers to keep posts in and sack locals living in this north. just inequality. help each other. before but kiev came to power girl and have served in the local police for a long time he was born in bishkek when becky of became president was replaced with someone from the south. now makes a living as a postman this time he is leaving bishkek for the place he dislikes most of all the country southern capital of all which. neighborhoods and looted shops serve as a reminder of

a vicious conflict the ethnic standoff between curtis and whose backs. the border between kurdistan and his back stan was drawn in soviet times it didn't matter that a dense population was part of the kurdish republic after all it was part of a single country the soviet union however interethnic violence erupted following the collapse of the u.s.s.r. one of the bloodiest confrontations began in the early hours of june eleventh two thousand and ten and lasted for nearly five days. the city of instantly fell into two camps people wrote their identities on the walls of their houses to indicate to the tenant was. there were signs on some of them but help never arrived the city's administration was powerless throughout the

riots break neighborhoods were ruined. you visit was in your house my daughter his cousins and i had not even had the opportunity to make ourselves at home there when it was burned down we were left out in the cold. nobody knows how many people died in the june confrontation official figures put the death toll at more than three hundred and speak of nearly a thousand injured however locals are sure that the figures are several times higher than really a new card then you have visited a number separate caregivers and it was backs were all muslims. don't be afraid don't have parents. all to the ones. this is how big of second attempt to build a house back in may he took pride in showing off his two storey homestead to neighbors it had taken him three years to build it in the wake of the june chaos

only the foundations for maint but have a bull is in no mood for despair he receives breaks from charities little by little construction work goes on. if we have been in our homes and go somewhere where will our homes be and what's the point of going anywhere this is our land our ancestors lived here no we aren't going anywhere we are going to build homes and live here. the house is unlikely to be completed any time soon for now refugees live in tent camps. there is no running water it has to be taken from a well cooking has to be done inside the tent the only way to warm a home is with a fire or electric stove there are several such places and of course a small memorial wall stands in the center of each one where pictures of the dead are posted. on you this his name is john said he served as i'm aware isn't in a mosque when all that happened to have to ruin the mosque had been seventy five

when i came there i saw that he was dead he had been trying to defend the mosque. this is the sixteenth century mosque which is the most remarkable site in our shoes so far is the only symbol of possible reconciliation in this divided country home locals encourages coming from the north pray together here they're joined by those blacks who share the same faith. that. the head of administration of the dying village of actors could have moved to the capital a long time ago his relatives live there and bishkek both a higher standard of living yet he stays in his native village but also only because of patriotism he believes that actors will once again become as prosperous

as a was in soviet times and many in kurdistan look to the country's future with optimism we have somebody who will get down to work here sooner or later and it will go on anon life will take its course and the village will be restored.

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