Viola von Cramon, the Green Party representative in Bundestag, says that the Kyrgyz government cannot provide security for the OSCE policemen.

Today the Tageszeitung newspaper published interview with von Cramon, which covers her last week visit to Bishkek and meetings with the Kyrgyz leadership.

As you remember, Roza Otunbayeva & Co. had agreed to the OSCE special police to be located in the southern provinces of the country after bloodshed in June. Last Friday, August 23, on the meeting with Otunbayeva, the Kyrgyz President stated that police could bring a wrong mood in the South and its security could not be guaranteed.

The Green politician understands the reasons for the rejection of the Kyrgyz-OSCE operation.

“The most important is that the security of this mission can be guaranteed locally. After what we have heard, this is not possible,” says von Cramon.

“Sending out the mission [...] will fuel further aggression.”

As neweurasia’s Marat Sartpaev reported,

No single international organization had faced such a criticism and dislike in Kyrgyzstan as OSCE did lately. The dislike is virtually flowing out of the “second capital” – Osh that recently suffered from wide-scale bloodletting events – which is almost daily shook by demonstrations against the OSCE advisory group’s deployment. Several hundreds of “concerned residents in the south” are unhappy with this idea, since they believe “this will lead to the dissolution of Kyrgyzstan as it did in Kosovo, South Ossetia.”

While talking to Omurbek Tekebayev, Ata-Meken chairman, she noticed that “If there is the aim to democratize Kyrgyzstan, everything must be done to involve and protect ethnic minorities.”

“That is not guaranteed,” was Tekebayev’s respond.

Uzbek community of Kyrgyzstan loses its last hope for protection and justice over the bloody events in southern Kyrgyzstan. Now the situation requires stronger pressure on the current political elite. Otherwise, Uzbeks of Kyrgyzstan should find a refuge in some other country where minority rights are respected. It’s obvious, that they just cannot be citizens of a country of anarchy and chaos; and live in one city with the city Mayor who calls himself a “nationalist.”

For more information

Oh-Beh-Es-Yeh! Ketsin?, by neweurasia‘s Marat Sartpaev, available here.

Full version of the interview by Tageszeitung (DE) is available here.

Deutsche Welle’s interview with the Green lady (RUS) is available here.