Kurmanbek Bakiev

Kurmanbek Bakiyev (2006)

Kurmanbek Bakiyev Salijewitsch ( Kyrgyz Курманбек Сали уулу Бакиев , Kurmanbek Bakiyev Sali uulu , Russian Курманбек Салиевич Бакиев * 1. August 1949 in Massadan at Susak , Kyrgyz SSR ) was from 2005 to 2010 President of Kyrgyzstan .

Life

In 1972 Bakiev graduated from a degree in electrical engineering and initially worked in Samara, Russia . 1974 to 1976 he did his military service. After returning to Kyrgyzstan, he worked in a connector factory in Jalalabat , where he became deputy chief engineer in 1979 and director in 1990. From 1990 he held various offices in the CPSU and political functions, first as first secretary of the party in Kok-Yangak , then chairman of the Supreme Soviet of this city and finally deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Jalalabat region . In 1995 he was replaced by President Askar Akayevappointed governor of Jalalabat. In April 1997, he moved to the office of governor of the Chüi region . On December 21, 2000 he became Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan after the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan 2000 . Only 17 months later, on May 22, 2002, he resigned after six demonstrators were shot dead by the security police in the southern Kyrgyz town of Aksy .

He later became the chairman of one of the various opposition movements in Kyrgyzstan. In the course of the tulip revolution , he was appointed head of a transitional government on March 24, 2005 and the day after that he was appointed transitional president. On July 10, 2005, he was elected President with 88.9% of the vote (with a 74.6% turnout) after he had concluded an alliance with Felix Kulow in the run-up to the election . Bakiyev was sworn in on August 14, 2005.

In October 2007, Bakiyev held a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would strengthen the powers of the president. After adopting the proposed amendment, he dissolved parliament and dismissed the government. New elections were scheduled for December 2007. Before the constitutional referendum, the Bakiyev supporting party " Ak Dschol " was founded on October 15 , in which many members of parliament joined in October. In July 2008, Nariman Tuleyev became a confidante of Bakiyev's mayor of Bishkek.

In the 2009 presidential election , Bakiyev was confirmed in office with 76.1% of the vote.

During the unrest in April 2010 , the opposition announced that Bakiyev had been overthrown on April 7, 2010. He first went to his home region in the south of the country and declared that he was the rightful President of Kyrgyzstan and that the coup was illegal. Only after the transitional government formed by former opposition politicians under former Foreign Minister Rosa Otunbajewa threatened to use force if necessary and to bring Bakiyev to justice, Bakiyev announced his resignation on April 15 and moved to neighboring Kazakhstan .

On April 20, Bakiyev traveled to Minsk with the help of the Belarusian government , where he declared that he would remain the President of Kyrgyzstan and that the government under Rosa Otunbayeva was illegal. In February 2012 it became known that Kurmanbek Bakiyev had obtained Belarusian citizenship and bought a house near Minsk.

On February 12, 2013, Bakiyev was sentenced in absentia to 24 years in prison and confiscated his property by the Bishkek court martial.

On July 25, 2014, he was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a court in Bishkek for the violent crackdown on anti-government protests in April 2010 in which 77 people were killed. Bakiyev has lived in exile in Belarus since April 2010 . His brother Shanibek Bakiyev, the former head of state personal protection, was sentenced to life imprisonment and his son Maxim Bakiyev was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for money laundering.

In an interview with the Belarusian portal Tut.By in November 2015, Bakiyev said he was ready at any time to testify in court and refute the allegations made against him. Such a process should not take place in Kyrgyzstan, where there is no independent judiciary. The reason he fled the country in 2010 was because he wanted to stop causing more bloodshed.

Web links

Commons : Kurmanbek Bakiyev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Kurmanbek Bakiev  - in the news

• President's website (in Kyrgyz, English and Russian)
• Interview in the mirror

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Putin wants to work with the new rulers in Kyrgyzstan, FAZ Online from March 25, 2005.
2. ↑ President strives to finish off political opponents ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2007 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. Eurasianet.org, October 23, 2007. 
3. ↑ http://de.rian.ru/postsowjetischen/20100407/125809220.html
4. ^ Welt Online : Bakiyev to Kazakhstan
5. ↑ NEWSru.com : Бакиев заявил, что остается президентом Киргизии, а временное правительство назвал "бандой"
6. ↑ Бакиев получил белорусское гражданство и купил дом в Минске
7. ↑ Свергнутого президента Киргизии заочно приговорили к 24 годам
8. ↑ Der Standard: Kyrgyzstan's ex-President Bakiyev sentenced to life imprisonment , July 25, 2014
9. ↑ Курманбек Бакиев - TUT.BY: Готов судиться с Кыргызстаном, а с Беларусью - поделиться опытом реформ . In: TUT.BY . ( tut.by [accessed January 5, 2018]).