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The third day of protests – the show is going on with more qualitative steps

Posted by Azamat | in Protests, Revolution fever, Opinion, Politics | on April 13th, 2007
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This is a translation of the post by Mirsulzhan, that originally appeared on the Russian version of neweurasia.

On the first day of the protests - participants slept in tents. They didn’t very much participated in the protest action. Today, it was possible to observe some idle participants being active. The quantity of protesters was almost same as it was yesterday and the day before yesterday. However, protesters seemed to understand fairly good requirements of opposition more than they did before. They often shouted “Bakiev ketsin” (Bakiev go away), and actively took part on a today’s marching.

In the afternoon, before the beginning of meeting, there were about 1000 people on the square. Though, to the beginning of the third day of protests, number of protesters increased to approximately 3000.

The opposition has finally come to its senses. The leader of the United Front, For Reforms and many others, gave speeches on a stage, however, today’s “minute of glory” was not so boring as it was yesterday, when anyone, who felt like showing their faces to people, appeared on stage.

Kulov at last has come to the square. However he didn’t give any speeches. Tekebaev, a main “socialist” of Kyrgyzstan, informed people saying that “there were rumors that Kulov and I had been at odds because of positions. Of course, we had discussed this question, but it was in 2000.”

By the way, today opposition accused law enforcement bodies that the latter have arrested more than hundred people from the square, who, probably, now are kept in custody.

Movement towards the Ministry of Internal Affairs, SNB (National Security Service) and the White House made people actively participate in the marching. People marched shouting “Bakiev ketsin, SNB ketsin.”

Thus, “ketsinization” process has taken root into consciousness of protesters, who are ready to shout “Ketsin!” at each word.

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  1. Nathan said,

    on April 13th, 2007 at 10:21 pm

    Prussian version? What has Ben been up to? :)

    Thanks for keeping us up to date!

  2. Tolkun said,

    on April 13th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    Sorry for a mistake. It was supposed to be Russian, not Prussian. Though, Prussian sounds really tempting.

  3. Bonnie Boyd said,

    on April 14th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    Dear Mirsulzhan and Tolkun,
    Yes, thank you for such assiduous and excellent reporting!
    If Bakiev and SNB ketsin, then what? Mr. Kulov becomes president, and Kyrgyzstan sees a benefit that looks like . . . .
    Or, at the very least, the demonstrators believe a benefit will occur that looks like. . . .
    If you get a chance, let us know.
    Bonnie

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