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| Religious Extremists to Destabilize Situation in Kyrgyzstan |
| 2004-06-28 |
| Members of the religious extremist party Khizb ut Takhrir [Hizb ut Tahrir] intend to arrange mass anti-American and anti-constitutional rallies in Kyrgyzstan, Tokon Mamytov, deputy chairman of the national security service, announced at the government’s session on Monday. Extremists may try to organize rallies of women demanding to rehabilitate and release the party’s members from prisons, like the ones held in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Mamytov said. Besides, there can be riots of young people, among whom prohibited religious organizations conduct their propaganda with special purposefulness, he said. According to the Kyrgyz national security service, the party members have recently received an instruction from the headquarters where they were told to step up their activities among the military, servicemen of the law-enforcement structures and prisoners. When speaking at the session, Kyrgyz Interior Minister Bakirdin Subanbekov said that the party’s activities presented "the biggest threat to the country’s stability." It "calls for military fight to come to power," he emphasized. Spread of extremist sentiment in the republic "has become possible due to underestimation of the real danger of religious extremism and insufficient coordination of efforts between state agencies," the minister said. He supported the decision of the security service to check the activities of the religious leaders of all the Kyrgyz mosques. According to RIA Novosti’s information, the prohibited Islamic extremist party Khizb ut Takhrir appeared in Central Asia republics in 1995. At present it numbers over 20,000 members. |
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