Kyrgyz Government Tells Bakiyev To Surrender By Day's End

Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 13 April 2010 | Dmitry Solovyov

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JALALABAD, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan's new rulers ordered President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to surrender by the end of Tuesday, threatening to seize him in a special operation if he continued to defy the interim government.

Bakiyev fled to the southern Jalalabad region from the capital Bishkek after troops fired on protesters in an uprising on April 7 that brought his opponents to power.

Bakiyev warned the self-proclaimed interim government that making any move against him could stoke further turmoil in the volatile Central Asian nation where the United States rents an air base used for the war effort in Afghanistan.

"There will be unpredictable consequences," he told Reuters as some 7,000 supporters rallied in Jalalabad, many waving banners and shouting: "Down with the bloody interim government."

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"We have abolished his presidential immunity," said Security Minister Azimbek Beknazarov. "We have opened a criminal case against the former president. If he does not show up today after the rally we will hold an operation to detain him."

Getting interesting........

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The opposition members are calling for the closing of the US controlled Manas Air Base, which is a significant base for Afghanistan.

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Personally I hope the base moves to Almaty. It’s a much nicer place to live and work. That may be what Obama’s recent ass kissing session with Nazarbayev was about.