The latest cartoon from Tom Wellings of The Times of Central Asia. Only this time, it was too incendiary for them to run it.
60-100 protesters, including one Parliament member, started an indefinite hunger strike in yurts set up outside the Kyrgyz Parliament today. United Front leader Felix Kulov, freshly returned from Moscow, announced the government has until tommorow to sign a constitutional draft, or else…
As April 11 gets closer, the atmosphere here in Bishkek is just getting giddier. Mini-protests are cropping up all over, such as a 20 strong “Mothers for Peace” march down Sovietskaya around lunchtime today, and further anti-anti-gov rallies promised. Rumors are flying as well, such as on what Kulov was doing recently in Moscow, and an alleged assasination attempt on him a few days ago (heard word-of-mouth). It’s anybody’s guess what’s going to happen at this point, but it’s bound to be interesting.
