Erkingül Imankozhoeva
Erkingül Bekbachaevna Imankozhoeva ( Kyrill . Эркингуль Бекбачаевна Иманкожоева ) (born October 19, 1966 ) is a Kyrgyz environmental activist and politician . After a cyanide accident in the Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan in 1998, she and her colleagues founded the local environmental organization Karek and in the following years obtained compensation for victims amounting to 3.7 million US dollars.
Since the parliamentary elections in 2010 she has been a member of the Kyrgyz Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan .
documentary
The filmmaker Mirjam Leuze accompanied Erkingül Imankozhoeva and her colleagues for several years. The resulting documentary "Flowers of Freedom", which premiered at the Berlinale in February 2014 , made the story of the cyanide accident in Germany known to a wider audience and also shows Erkingül Imankozhoeva as a member of parliament.
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the Kyrgyz Parliament (Russian)
- German-Kyrgyz Cultural Association - Radioeins Interview , February 13, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Welle : Kyrgyzstan: The dirty gold from the mountains , May 14, 2007
- ^ Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights: Justice for People Disabled by Cyanide Spill
- ↑ a b http://www.berlinale.de/de/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20142609#tab=video25
- ↑ Website Kyrgyzstan Parliament: List of Members of the Social Democratic Group ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IMDb : Flowers of Freedom (2014)
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| SURNAME | Imankozhoeva, Erkingül |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Imankozhoeva, Erkingul Bekbachaevna; Иманкожоева, Эркингуль Бекбачаевна |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kyrgyz environmental activist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1966 |