I Want Peace in Kyrgyzstan
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A public campaign is taking place in Bishkek and Osh under the slogan “I want peace in Kyrgyzstan”, which is actively spreading the message of peace, harmony and peaceful settlement of the situation. The driving force behind the campaign are active civic activists and internet users. (Click the image above for more information or contact Mirsulzhan Namazaliev: mirsulzhan [at] namazaliev [dot] com; click here to see videos..)
Our team has developed information leaflets, stickers and T-shirts, calling for peace and harmony of citizens of Kyrgyzstan. Within the framework of the campaign, the team worked on mapping the provision of humanitarian aid and medicine to residents of Osh and Jalal Abad regions.
Also, members of the team helped in the unloading of humanitarian cargo from Bishkek to the southern regions. Number of participants also traveled to Osh city to become familiar with the situation, met with government officials, nongovernmental organizations and to explore possibilities for mitigating inter-ethnic tension.
Our team closely works with other groups from Bishkek and Osh, in particular “Youth of Osh” and Independent Information Centre. The U.S. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan, the National Democratic Institute and the Danish Church Aid are the primary donors of the campaign “I want peace in Kyrgyzstan.”
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Адам адамга кашкыр.
What you will have now during the hangover (I saw that in the Balkans too at the time), are embarassed psychological suppression mechanisms: blaming ‘foreign mercenaries’ (IMU/IJU-yeah right… manmanman) or ‘wild southerners who were brought in from the villages’. Because, of course, ‘our people’ don’t do such a thing.
Whoever carried out atrocities against whom: the tragic outcome of the convergence of ethnic nationalism, criminal interests and alcoholic frenzy is clear.
What is more, the ethnic nationalist beast that was unleashed over the last weeks is an outcome of the IFI- and donor-promoted neo-liberal policies and concepts that were shoveled down the throat of Kyrgyzstani society since the ’90s. These did not only legitimized the rotten, Soviet-shaped ‘elites’ who dislocated society and the economy. With their hardly covert westernization including full de-Islamization agendas they also led to an acute identity crisis among the Kyrgyz in particular. The backlash is nationalism and ethnic cleansing.
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All these conflict prevention and -mitigation efforts are well meant but scores of donors and NGOs have been doing that in the Ferghana region over the last ten years, with obvious failure we could say…
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I’m very proud of this Youth Movement!!!
I and my surrounding friends, who are actively taking participation in helping the South, also got those Awesome Peace T-shirts from them! Thank you so much!
Now wherever we go to volunteer, we wear these T-shirts! We want to widespread this Spirit of “I want Peace in Kyrgyzstan”!=) Now I see more and more youth in this Blue T-shirt,walking around our city! I’m so proud!
Today We (another student org.) went to do one volunteer project. And on the way home, some young people saw us, and gave us greeting and salute, seeing this Peace Blue T-shirts! We don’t know each other, BUT we know we Hope for the Same–”I want Peace in Kyrgyzstan”!!!!=)
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Turgai Reply:
July 4th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
@Jenny Jie, Yes, moving entusiasm – ur-ra ur- ra ur-ra. Before you lot toed the internationalist line because the Komsomol told you, now because your new masters of USAID and AUCA tell you.
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Бул көйнөктөрдү Америкада алса болобу? Мүмкүн болсо алат элем!
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