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09BISHKEK348
2009-04-15 11:31:00
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Embassy Bishkek
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Kyrgyz Parliamentarian Murdered
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UNCLAS BISHKEK 000348
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR KG
SUBJECT: Kyrgyz Parliamentarian Murdered
UNCLAS BISHKEK 000348
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR KG
SUBJECT: Kyrgyz Parliamentarian Murdered
1. (SBU) Ak Jol Party Deputy Sanjar Kadyraliev, 32, was killed by
a single shot outside his home on the evening of April 13.
According to newspaper reports, witnesses heard four shots, and saw
a man run away from the scene and get into a waiting car. The
Ministry of Interior is investigating. Deputy Speaker of Parliament
Kubanychbek Isabekov has already ruled out the possibility of a
special parliamentary commission to investigate the murder.
2. (SBU) Local commentators, particularly on the Diesel internet
forum, doubt that the murder was politically motivated. Rather,
they claim that Kadyraliev had a long association with organized
crime. Internet newspaper AKIpress claimed that Kadyraliev
organized a notorious 2005 assault by a group of "sportsmen" on the
Osh office of MP Bayaman Erkinbayev, another reputed organized crime
figure who was murdered in September 2005.
3. (SBU) Kadyraliev was first elected to Parliament from a
district in the southern province of Osh in an extremely contentious
2006 election. Before the election, Kadyraliev was an instructor of
"no holds barred" (Pankreaton) fighting, and later an executive of a
Kyrgyz Pankreaton association. According to his opponent in the
race, Kadyraliev used at least a hundred thugs from his association
to intimidate district residents into voting for him. After a
second round of voting, an appeal to the Supreme Court, and several
bloody fights among supporters, Kadyraliev was announced the winner
- because, according to his opponent, he personally threatened the
members of the local election commission. In the 2007 parliamentary
elections, Kadyraliev was elected on the party list of Ak Jol,
President Bakiyev's party.
4. (SBU) COMMENT: Kadyraliev is the fourth Kyrgyz MP murdered
since 2005, in addition to one unexplained disappearance of a
Member of Parliament. Presidential elections are set for July 23,
and the opposition plans to contest them in spite of increasing
political pressure on opposition leaders. There are no clear
political links to this murder, but post will follow the results of
the investigation.
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR KG
SUBJECT: Kyrgyz Parliamentarian Murdered
1. (SBU) Ak Jol Party Deputy Sanjar Kadyraliev, 32, was killed by
a single shot outside his home on the evening of April 13.
According to newspaper reports, witnesses heard four shots, and saw
a man run away from the scene and get into a waiting car. The
Ministry of Interior is investigating. Deputy Speaker of Parliament
Kubanychbek Isabekov has already ruled out the possibility of a
special parliamentary commission to investigate the murder.
2. (SBU) Local commentators, particularly on the Diesel internet
forum, doubt that the murder was politically motivated. Rather,
they claim that Kadyraliev had a long association with organized
crime. Internet newspaper AKIpress claimed that Kadyraliev
organized a notorious 2005 assault by a group of "sportsmen" on the
Osh office of MP Bayaman Erkinbayev, another reputed organized crime
figure who was murdered in September 2005.
3. (SBU) Kadyraliev was first elected to Parliament from a
district in the southern province of Osh in an extremely contentious
2006 election. Before the election, Kadyraliev was an instructor of
"no holds barred" (Pankreaton) fighting, and later an executive of a
Kyrgyz Pankreaton association. According to his opponent in the
race, Kadyraliev used at least a hundred thugs from his association
to intimidate district residents into voting for him. After a
second round of voting, an appeal to the Supreme Court, and several
bloody fights among supporters, Kadyraliev was announced the winner
- because, according to his opponent, he personally threatened the
members of the local election commission. In the 2007 parliamentary
elections, Kadyraliev was elected on the party list of Ak Jol,
President Bakiyev's party.
4. (SBU) COMMENT: Kadyraliev is the fourth Kyrgyz MP murdered
since 2005, in addition to one unexplained disappearance of a
Member of Parliament. Presidential elections are set for July 23,
and the opposition plans to contest them in spite of increasing
political pressure on opposition leaders. There are no clear
political links to this murder, but post will follow the results of
the investigation.