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needs and seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter relieved a. mum. i tell marvin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. of. kurdistan the central asian country and former soviet republic.

in the space of just five years this state has gone through two revolutions the country is divided into two parts both by the mountains and by the un was all conflict between a developed north and i cultural south. and kurdistan to overcome its political and ethnic standoff could there be a repetition of spontaneous riots involving a mass loss of life. tucked away in the mountains one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital bishkek is the village of actors as 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 a look at these are mine do not use the or was taken from them in the open pit of

heavy duty bellows trucks brought in from there as you can see the roads are still here in soviet times they produce three hundred tons a day at that time all our tools are villages work here but even that was not enough so they brought workers from other places. the head of administration is showing the former pride of the village the factory producing uranium ore. from the open pit was brought here it was process to consent to the laboratory for further tests that. actress 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 that within a few years those who stayed behind had to learn to survive amidst high radiation levels and rampant unemployment. and this is the sort of british east that we

currently are and the first the it's. a tiny patch of land one back from the mountains a few sheep and two cows that's all that the only russian family left in the village has to survive on in a palace sankoh and her husband worked at the factory until nine hundred ninety two . sargent's know it's only by the situation in which we see the same mess we're in 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 suffer 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 banks mostly live in the country south make up eighteen percent while russians account for eight percent of the country's capital

is bishkek. 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 staking out their heads they were there and they're everywhere. by of a was among the thousands who took to the streets of bishkek only full seven two thousand and ten. those events were later dubbed the second card is revolution on that day demonstrators only want the authorities to heed their grievances their response was gunfire. ah. here's the shot at us and push

does that i thought i could did falling to the ground right here his leg was bleeding i covered him with my body if you need to kill somebody kill me he's not guilty plea. the protesters demanded the resignation of the. these leaders especially presidents come and take a cue. the irony of the situation is that five years before the baccy of came to power in the wake of a similar uprising i. should look revolution was the name given to the events when the first kurdish president ask archive was stripped of power in two thousand and five this flower is one of the country's symbols. i. know 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. alexander even though for members the great enthusiasm but engulfed people gathered in bishkek central square in two thousand and five. to re-inforce much from the south came demonstrators broke into the presidential palace in bishkek. park when we realized that the house of cards was falling apart. that inspired us with the hope that the president would step down but everybody was in a state of euphoria. when president kind of left the country coming back by kiev came to power. the euphoria that characterized the chill of revolutionaries began evaporating only a year later when the new president chose to pursue the same policies that eventually toppled his predecessor. gave top government posts to relatives and friends. in two thousand five hundred even though it was

a by kiev supporter in april two 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 told 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 machias presidents ation me it is a typical ending for a government which came to power violently after the cools you know all the while in general all colored revolutions were performed by the same script from the rose revolution in georgia the orange revolution in ukraine and the chill of revolution in kyrgyzstan but in the so last one was virtually transformed into a cool the new. meanwhile cargo planes were landing on the runway of the russian

airbase 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. our job is to protect installations which are situated in curious territory. notably the current airbase affiliated facilities as well as russian citizens living here. i feel. as a matter of fact russian military personnel have no problems in connection with the able life. the airfield is within the town of cancer there is

a special situation here. as far as i know there are no plans to oppose the base and indeed there's no activity against it. the last air base serves as the air mobility house aboard operations against them but perhaps just the support of those that are aside here is also very good melissa says with a look at this trailer is taken from the website of a us air base which is situated close to count strengthen it shares a runway with minus international airports u.s. service men claim they get along well with the locals. the fact is however that 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. without them there is an airport near here most of the planes flying some

distance away and quite a few can hear two and first lots of them flew around here but when people started complaining they turned it down it even so airplanes come and go around the clock. well asians between locals and the u.s. military went downhill after a tragic incident between private sector a health field and a fuel servicing truck driver. alexander even north was shot and killed by the private. on that day his colleagues came to me and said alexander was shot dead by an american soldier what shot that how come we don't know. it is still unclear why the private behave the way he did according to how field he fired in self-defense because he claims you know attacked him with a knife however several pieces of evidence do not corroborate that theory. it's nonsense given that alexander was one hundred eighty centimeters tall and had filled 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. fishcake appeared to have heated public demands that the u.s. base be closed but mannus 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 baccy of government and the us state department as such u.s. cargo planes continue to take off from curtis territory. those troops should have been brought to justice instead of the contest elections we the young people of the cookies republic have been under the you corrupt regimes for years we have fed up with it continuing cycle of deceit 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 objective new elections inspired both hope and anxiety 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. culture is that so much different and there is a huge decision at the right time for the united nations tribunals he's indicted some members of the lebanese shia movement has pulled off the assassination of a former lebanese prime minister. of fifty. fifty

. it is four thousand two hundred meters above sea level while it is still woman bishkek two hundred kilometers from here the weather is already cool of the comfort of causes. this is the site of kurdistan's most successful industrial plants giant truck spring tons of fall from an open pit several hundred meters deep. this giant caterpillar can carry one hundred seventy cones. we now have thirty. medium sized dump trucks i'm serious he made was. you know you can see some of the

people one step behind me. thousands of tons of rock will go through a long treatment process to yield several kilograms of it rich or. it will then go to the most important place in the factory the smelting furnace there cold will be extracted from the or. the focus of the cattle residue is dried and rio agents are added to it. and then it goes into this often where the temperature is one thousand five hundred degrees celsius the city of gold is melted into a half to three hours we still cold every two days but today will produce four bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces all together through. the computer picked a 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. we have cooperation his government good cooperation. people. were able to work. and able to meet our. contributor. budget in her. gold production accounts for forty percent of the country's industry but kurdistan is still largely al agrarian country nearly half its population is employed and i could 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 investments 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 so. we pressed felt three times by how much to make it hard enough so. we used tied felt to make phadke it. is hundred made because we want to make sure that it resists 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 had to tell customers from switzerland. is 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 one 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 have 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 take place and are held in a peaceful atmosphere in conformity with the election and. republic. contrary to expectations the election passed off in a cam atmosphere but when the votes were counted it became obvious that the pendulum of curtis politics had swayed again. the election to be won by the 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 kyrgyzstan was an owl a democracy. they described their people as democratically mindedly.

by a vote was one of those who helped bring about the able 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 to post back here of how the electoral victory of the at a short party our votes were stolen by the others who would party if 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 the time he and friends went to bishkek total president barchi of him and back maintains that curtis politics and his favorite game are all in common. this game is like politics 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 cargoes president ask archive comes from the north he was toppled by the south coming back but if you like a certain those are a close knit community they help one best they can. to keep posts in and sack locals living in this north. does any cool seek. 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 and 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 options. burnt out neighborhoods and looted shops service reminder of a vicious conflict. the ethnic standoff between card is banks. the border between kurdistan and is bankstown was drawn in soviet times it didn't matter the population was part of the curve is 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 tenants was. there were signs on some of them but help never arrived the city's administration was powerless throughout the riots back neighborhoods were ruined. who. was in your house my daughter wasn't and i did not even have the opportunity to make ourselves a tone fair 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 about the figures are several times higher movie and you can bet you have visited we never separated here it isn't backs we're all muslims. don't be afraid to have parents mothers. want to be ones. this is how the. second attempt to build a house back in may he took pride in showing off his two story 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 how did wall is in no mood for despair he receives breaks from charities little by little construction work goes on. if we abandon 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 anytime soon for now refugees live in tents 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. when you is his name is chosen he serves as them weighs in in a mosque when all that happened has ruined seeing the mosque incident fine when i came there i saw that he was dead he had been trying to do the mosque. this is the sixteenth century mosque which is the most remarkable site in. so far it's the only symbol of possible reconciliation in this divided country home locals encourages coming from the north pray together here they are joined by those backs

to share the same face. at. 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 . perhaps somebody 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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