The “Tulip Revolution” in Kyrgyzstan in 2005 was quite cheap for the United States. This was stated by the former president of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The former Kyrgyz leader recalled that the United States uses “color revolutions” to replace leaders they do not like in several countries and on different continents. According to him, it became objectionable to Washington for two reasons: firstly, because of the initiative to create a Russian air base in Kyrgyzstan in 2003, against the will of the United States. And secondly, for refusing to park the American Avax reconnaissance plane at Manas International Airport in 2004.
“So the United States acted according to a well-known scenario, successfully tested previously in Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004). A fierce, large-scale information campaign began to discredit me and my relatives in the independent media. The United States provided generous financial assistance to the irreconcilable radical opposition to fight the legitimate power of the republic. Additionally, the US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Young Stephen He personally and openly directed the preparation of opposition forces for the so-called “Tulip Revolution,” – Akayev said.
He added that at that time, through third countries, the media received the interception of a report from Young, who urgently demanded $30 million from the State Department to discredit the family of the Kyrgyz president and spread scandalous rumors that his wife wanted to become the next head of state.
“It is well known that on March 24, 2005, a group of conspirators led by Bakiyev, Otunbaeva AND Atambaev (all three were presidents of Kyrgyzstan – approx. EADaily) carried out a coup d’état, relying on the criminal forces of drug traffickers, as well as financial and information support from the United States. The criminal component of the coup in the following years resulted in many problems: a series of high-profile contract killings; aggressive intrusion of representatives of the criminal world into public policy; merge criminality with state power. All this seriously worsened the political situation in the country for many years.” – said further Akaev.
He noted that the “Tulip Revolution” in Kyrgyzstan cost the United States quite cheaply: between 10 and 50 million dollars, while it cost the people of Kyrgyzstan very dearly: almost 15 years of instability and chaos, as well as stagnation economic.
“People rightly call these years the “lost decade.” – Akaev said about this.
The money, he said, was transferred to the opposition, which, after realizing that it could not galvanize the broad popular masses to a true revolution, “without hesitation resorted to the services of the drug mafia and the criminals to carry out an ordinary coup d’état.”
