Bakiyev Denies Involvement in Unrest in S. Kyrgyzsatn

2010-06-13 17:52:43 Xinhua Web Editor: Yang Yang

Kyrgyzstan's former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev denied on Sunday his alleged involvement in the unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Interfax news agency reported.

"I state with responsibility that it is a brazen lie," Bakiyev said in the Belarussian capital of Minsk.

The ousted leader said the bloodshed must be stopped, and blamed the interim government for not "mobilizing necessary resources and localizing the conflict."

"Kyrgyzstan, as a republic, can lose its state sovereignty today. People are being killed and no one in the current government can protect them," Bakiyev said in a statement.

The Kyrgyz interim government declared a state of emergency and curfew in the southern cities of Jalalabad and Osh on Saturday as the unrest, which erupted Thursday due to inter-ethnic clashes, has killed at least 82 people and injured more than 1,000.

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