Kyrgyzstan forms state commission to study situation in Koi-Tash on Aug. 7-8

Bishkek, Aug. 29, 2019. / Kabar /. A State Commission was established to study the situation in the village of Koi-Tash in Alamudun region of Chui Oblast on Aug. 7-8, 2019. The corresponding decision was signed by Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev, the government's press service reported.
The order was signed in order to objectively and comprehensively examine the situation in the village of Koi-Tash on Aug. 7 and 8, 2019.
The State Commission was instructed to study the issue within a month and prepare a conclusion.
The State Commission will be headed by Zhenish Razakov, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic and includes members of the Parliament, representatives of state bodies, experts and public figures.
The special forces of the State Committee for National Security conducted a special operation on Aug. 7-8 to detain former president Almazbek Atambayev, which resulted in clashes between law enforcement agencies and Atambayev’s supporters. During a special operation to detain the former president, one soldier of the special forces was killed, over 100 were injured.
Former president Atambayev, 62, is charged in corruption, including the suspected corruption during the reconstruction of Bishkek's thermal power station, the unlawful obtaining of land for building his residential house, and helping release Chenchen criminal Aziz Batukayev during his presidency from Dec. 2011 to Nov. 2017.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan summoned Atambayev for questioning three times on the case of unlawful release of criminal authority Batukayev, but Atambayev ignored them. Later, Kyrgyz authorities decided to detain him by force.