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phone or i pod touch from the i choose apps to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand on cheese my fuel costs and already says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the katine dot com. kurdistan 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 unresolved conflict between the developed north and i call cultural south.

kurdistan to 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 actos 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 little easier mind to not use the or was taken from them in the open pit of heavy duty delos trucks and run it from there as you can see the roads are still here in soviet times they produce three hundred tons a day their time all our tools are villagers work here but even that was not enough

so they brought workers from other places. head of administration is showing the former pride of the village the factory producing uranium ore. from the open it 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 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 as we crusader and 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 pastor survive on in a palace sankoh and her husband worked at the factory until one thousand nine

hundred two. sargent's know it's only by the situation in elderly each we see the same mess where we go this is very barren set. 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 nine hundred ninety one the country's population is five million cards account for seventy percent of the total banks mostly live in the country south make up its hundred percent well russians account for eight percent of the country's capital is bishkek. was 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. 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. here's a shot at us and push does back 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 is not guilty. the protesters

demanded the resignation country of the. these leaders especially presidents come and take but you know. the irony of the situation is that five years before the kids came to power in the wake of a similar uprising. 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. 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 off remembers the great enthusiasm but engulfed people gathered in bishkek central square in two thousand and five. after

a enforcements from the south came demonstrators broke into the presidential palace in bishkek. party 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 president i 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. but he if top government posts to relatives and friends. in two thousand five hundred even though it was a bucket of supporters 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 toppled to either we get them of the room or they will simply be. torn to pieces. and i think it's a natural epilogue for machias presidency and then you have me yes it's a typical ending for a government which came to power violently after the cool. and the world in general all colored revolutions were performed when the same script will score from the rose revolution in georgia the orange revolution in ukraine and the two it revolution in can you start at the so last one was virtually transformed into a cool in the heat of battle meanwhile cargo planes were landing on the runway of the 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.

that hit. our job is to protect installations which are situated in churches territory. notably the count airbase affiliated facilities as well as russian citizens living here. for a wide variety of people. as a matter of fact russian military personnel had no problems in connection with the able whites. think. the efi lives within the town of cannes there is a special situation here. as far as i know there are no plans to close the base and indeed there's no one to receive against it.

the last air base serves as the air mobility house aboard operations or bands but that's just as important to those that are assigned here because a very good militia says with a look at this trailer is taken from the website of a us air base which is situated close to count strengthen the bonds it shares a runway with minus international airports u.s. service men claim they get along well with locals. the fact is however that villagers nearby are not as friendly as the americans claim they are played by the constant roar of cargo planes taking off several times a day. three of them there is an airport near here most of them please find some distance away and quite if you can hear two and first lots of them flew around here but when people started complaining they turned it down it did in so airplanes come and go around the clock. well issues between locals and the u.s.

military went downhill after a tragic incident between private sacré hatfield and a fuel servicing truck driver. alexander even off was shot and killed by the private so on that day his colleagues came to me and said alexander was shot dead by an american soldier lott shot dead 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 built one hundred sixty four and base 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 a few 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 back 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 a 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 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. the prospect of 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. issues that so much definitely use music to share power. with united nations tribunals he's indicted some members of the liberty she movement has pulled off the assassination of former lebanese prime minister.

it is four thousand two hundred meters above sea level while and still woman bishkek two hundred kilometers from here the weather is already cool of the comfort of hostess. this is the site of kurdistan's most successful industrial. giant trucks bring tons of fall from an open pit several hundred meters deep. they said giant caterpillar can carry one hundred seventy tons. we now have thirteen. medium size come trucks i'm serious he made ones. yeah you can see some of the big one step behind me going on. thousands of tons of

rock will go through a long treatment process to yield several kilograms of and restore. it will then go to the most important place in the factory the smelting furnace there cold will be extracted from me or. the focus because the residue is dried and rio agents are added to it. and then it goes into this open where the temperature is one thousand five hundred degrees celsius to see if the gold is melted in two and a half to three hours we still cold every two days. today will produce four bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces all together it's. a computer pitch belongs to a canadian firm for that reason the production process follows western standards every single piece of equipment and even the workers clothes 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 good cooperation his government good cooperation. people. working. to meet our. contributor. budget hurts. both production accounts for forty percent of the country's industry but kurdistan is still largely ally grammarian country nearly half of 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 investment but of a different kind in the past terse 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 hand to make it hard enough as. we used dyed felt to make headgear. is her main because we want to make sure that it is this barren time. before the april revolution the crossmen 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 all goods made of felt was a very tough job. on april the seventh and eighth we have to tell customers in 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 are 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 of. 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 purpose politics had swayed again. the election to be won by the other party consisting of supporters of ex-president baqir who was deposed in april. the leaders should stick their political ambitions up you know what it is 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 of democracy. they describe their people as democratically mindedly. of course. viable was one of

those who helped bring about be 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 posed by kiev have dubbed the electoral victory of the as a short party our mouths were stolen neither party those were i'm fair elections. this is the kurdish version of a question polo the carcass of a gold is the ball in this traditional game them 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 stoppel president by kiev him and back maintains that curtis politics and his favorite game have a lot in common. but. 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 archaia comes from the north he was toppled by the south's common back but care if you like this so moser a close knit community they help one another as best they can. fellow so he knows to keep posts in and sack locals living in this north the result is inequality the cinemas help each other. before but kiev came to power to learn had served in the local police for a long time he was born in bishkek when bakiev 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 all which. burnt out neighborhoods and looted shops serve as a reminder of a vicious conflict the ethnic standoff between card is and whose backs. the border between kurdistan and his back stan was drawn in soviet times it didn't matter that a dense was back population was part of the kurds republic after all it was part of a single country the soviet union however interethnic violence erupted following the collapse of the us 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 neighborhoods were ruined. good visit was in your house my daughter wasn't in there i did not even had the opportunity to make ourselves that home there when it was burned down where we 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 movie and you can bet you have visited we never separated here it isn't it was backs were 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 true 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 people are is in no mood for despair he receives breaks from charities little by little construction work. 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 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. when you this his name is chosen he serves as them where is in in a mosque when all that happened to her through missing the mosque has been said and find 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 auschwitz so far it is 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 fate. 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 been scared both to higher standard of living yet he stays in his native village but also only because of patriotism evil is that actors will once again become as prosperous as a was in soviet times and many in kurdistan look to their 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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