Cross For Lukashenka Brought To Belarusian Embassy In Kyrgyzstan

A Kyrgyz activist Andurush Taktanasyrov demands extradition of the former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who is hiding in Belarus.

The activist from Kyrgyzstan Andurush Taktanasyrov has brought a sepulchral cross to the Embassy of Belarus in Kyrgyzstan, Radio Svaboda informs with a reference to local mass media. The surname, “Lukashenka”, was written on the cross.

“It is for Lukashenka’s black day, – Taktanasyrov explained.—Someday he is to leave this world and to go to a better world. So there is a ready memorial for him!”

In this way the activist raised his voice against the stay in Belarus of the former Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who received asylum in Belarus after the revolution in 2010. He lives in a cottage in Drazdy and has published memoirs.

Starting from 2010, from time to time Taktanasyrov stages rallies in front of the Belarusian embassy. I 2015 he congratulated Lukashenka on the new term in power by stones instead of flowers.

We remind that the former president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted as a result of popular protests in April 201, and after that together with his family had to flee the country. For shooting of protesters and a number of other especially grave crimes in his home country, the court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced Kurmanbek Bakiyev in absentia, together with the head of the State guard service Zhanybek Bakiyev, to the supreme measure of punishment – a life sentence and confiscation of property.

The former president and his brother live in Minsk. The authorities of Kyrgyzstan many times demanded their extradition from Belarus, however every time it was denied.

Belarusian mass media inform that back in August 2010 in one of the police department of Minsk Kurmanbek Bakiyev received a passport of a citizen of Belarus. It was also learned that the former president of Kyrgyzstan bought a house for $2 million in the outskirts of Minsk.

In October 2015 Bakiyev, who is on wanted list, published a memoirs book in Minsk. Its title is Pain, Love and Hope: My Kyrgyzstan.