All law enforcement officials left the village of Koy-Tash, where the home of ex-president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev is located, the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry told, APA reports citing Interfax.
“During the negotiations with Atambayev’s supporters, who promised to release six special forces officers by morning, it was decided to withdraw all the employees from the Koy-Tash village of” Kursan Asanov, deputy head of the Kyrgyz Ministry of Internal Affairs, told.
***01:48/08.08.2019
During negotiations with the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Kursan Asanov, representatives of the People’s Headquarters demanded the inclusion of mobile communications and the Internet.
The entire upper zone of the Alamedin district of the Chui region was disconnected from the Internet and mobile communications. According to the supporters of A. Atambayev, the security forces turned on the “jammers” after the start of a special operation to seize the ex-president of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Ravshan Jeenbekov told K. Asanov that six special forces of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic would remain at Almazbek Atambayev’s residence until the morning as a guarantee that law enforcement agencies would not take any military action against supporters of the ex-president of the Kyrgyz Republic. Representatives of the People’s Headquarters showed a video of the detained commandos, noting that their wounded comrades were sent to hospitals.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs units are squeezed on the Bishkek-Koy-Tash highway from two sides by residents of the upper zone of the Alamedin region, whose numbers are growing.Representatives of the People’s Headquarters urged not to succumb to provocations and not to cause unrest.
It should be noted that more than 1000 people are located near the house of Atambaev and inside. The attempt to capture the ex-president of the Kyrgyz Republic by the special unit of the State Committee for National Security was unsuccessful.
As a result, some of the special forces were captured by Atambayev’s supporters, while others managed to escape along the ravine near Atambayev’s house, crossing the river, which flows next to the ex-president’s mansion.
CNS representatives also said that A. Atambayev’s supporters from different regions of Kyrgyzstan had already begun to leave for Bishkek.
***01:19/08.08.2019
President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov intends to hold an urgent meeting of the country's Security Council, APA reports citing TASS.
The meeting of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan will be held in Bishkek on August 8.
***23:58
A few hours ago, special forces attempted to detain the ex-president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev at his residence in the village of Koy-Tash near Bishkek.
According to recent reports, as a result of clashes between supporters of the ex-head of state and special forces, 36 people were injured.
***23:31
Law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies left the village where the residence of ex-President Almazbek Atambayev is located. This was reported at the headquarters of the former head of the Kyrgyz state. "According to our data, police officers and special forces have left the village of Koy-Tash," a headquarters spokesman said.
Nevertheless, according to him, the situation in the area of Atambayev’s residence "remains tense."
***22:24
Kyrgyzstan’s former president, Almazbek Atambayev, continues to offer resistance to crack police conducting an operation the village of Koi-Tash, the Chu region, in an attempt to detain him, the entourage of the former head of state told TASS, thus refuting its own earlier statements about Atambayev’s detention, APA reports citing TASS.
"Crack police managed to enter the premises of Atambayev’s estate and approach the house where the president is at the moment. He keeps offering resistance," a spokesman for Atambayev’s team said, adding that the details of the current situation remained unclear, because the police did not allow anybody to approach Atambayev’s house, from where "shots continue to be fired."
***19:16
Kyrgyzstan’s law enforcement agencies have detained the country’s former President Almazbek Atambayev, a spokesperson for the ex-president’s team told TASS, APA reports.
"Special forces members have detained Atambayev, taking him to an unknown location," the spokesperson said. According to him, Atambayev’s supporters tried to prevent his detention, ten people, including a reporter and a local lawmaker, suffered injuries.
"Supporters keep coming to Atambayev’s house, up to 500 people have gathered there. They are building barricades and trying to break inside the house," the spokesperson added.
Detention operation
Kyrgyzstan’s State National Security Committee has confirmed that an operation is taking place to detain the former president.
"Special forces members haven’t used assault weapons during the operation. They only used rubber bullets. The detention operation is still underway," the Kabar news agency quoted a Committee spokesperson as saying.
Charges against Atambayev
On June 27, Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted to strip Atambayev of immunity and ex-president status. The former president’s lawyer said the move ran counter to the country’s Constitution.
Atambayev is suspected of being involved in corruption schemes related to the reconstruction of Bishkek’s thermal power plant and Historical Museum, the unlawful release of crime boss Aziz Batukayev and illegal deliveries of coal to Bishkek’s thermal power plants, as well as in reassigning plots of land in the country’s Issyk-Kul region and illegally obtaining a plot of land to build a residential house in the Koi-Tash settlement, Chuy region.
The former president claims that the country’s incumbent head of state is persecuting him for political reasons. Atambayev earlier ignored three interrogation requests issued by the Interior Ministry and warned that he would offer armed resistance against attempts to arrest him.
Atambayev served as Kyrgyz president in 2011-2017. He was the country’s first head of state to step down after his first term in office had expired. In the spring of 2018, Atambayev admitted that he had strong differences with incumbent President Sooronbay Jeenbekov.
***19:01
In Kyrgyzstan, an operation began to arrest the former president of the country, Almazbek Atambayev, the headquarters of the former head of state said, APA reports.
"Police officers began an operation to capture the ex-president," his headquarters said.
On June 27, the Kyrgyz parliament deprived Atambayev of immunity. He is suspected of involvement in five crimes and was summoned for questioning several times.
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