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2005-03-24 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Steve 2005-03-24 8:47:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 pink and yellow, IIUC.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-03-24 9:44:33 AM|| 2005-03-24 9:44:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd like to buy a vowel, Pat?

Posted by Kyrgyz 2005-03-24 9:46:01 AM|| 2005-03-24 9:46:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Except they don't have a color. It doesn't work right without a color, mark my words...

When it was still being discussed as a future possibility Kyrgyzstan was supposed to be the Tulip (or more rarely "Lemon") revolution.

But I've seen few people name it such after the revolt actually happened: Not sure why such is the case -- perhaps it's because it's felt to be largely different than the peaceful revolutions of Serbia/Georgia/Ukraine/Lebanon which largely got results from sheer magnitude of public support -- perhaps it's just lack of good PR.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-03-24 9:51:59 AM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-03-24 9:51:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A recent report says opposition leader Felix Kulov has been taken from jail to the television station, no doubt to resolve the color issue.

Posted by Tom 2005-03-24 10:11:30 AM|| 2005-03-24 10:11:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if part of the reason that the dynamic of *this* revolution was different from Ukraine or Georgia, was that Kulov was in jail. One of the things I had noticed and which had made me cynical about Kyrgyzstan's prospects was that the opposition wasn't unified: It had given it (to me atleast) the impression an uncontrolled, undirected mob where every mob was out for itself or for regional governors, without a specific vision for their society or country as a whole.

This now may change. BBC's reporting that he's emerging as the leader of the opposition, and urging for both calm and a peaceful transfer of power.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-03-24 11:22:33 AM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-03-24 11:22:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Directed revolutions are the only ones allowed.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-24 11:35:52 AM|| 2005-03-24 11:35:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Shipman, it helps if revolutions do have a vision.

When they don't have any vision at all, they are just mobs of looters. And when they have many vague visions borne of dissatisfaction, that's just what we call "civic unrest" and hardly likely to be successful unless it coavalesces to something more specific.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-03-24 11:45:34 AM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-03-24 11:45:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "coalesce" I meant

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-03-24 11:47:42 AM|| [http://www.livejournal.com/~katsaris/] 2005-03-24 11:47:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, this wasn't exactly the Velvet Revolution, and Akyiev wasn't exactly Turkmenbashi, which is why no-one is particularly enthusiastic. On the positive side of things, it doesn't sound like the initial rioting and building-burning is breaking out into wide-spread bloodshed.

Posted by Mitch H. 2005-03-24 11:57:36 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-03-24 11:57:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Thanks Aris. A vision is everything, perhaps a mission statment for the revolution should be required.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-24 12:05:42 PM|| 2005-03-24 12:05:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Have a little yellow flower Askar, you police state S.O.B.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-03-24 12:16:06 PM|| 2005-03-24 12:16:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 While I understand what you are saying Aris, I would take my chances with a little anarchy if I were from Kyrgyzstan. Things have been a little too "old school" soviet in Central Asia for the past 15 years.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-03-24 12:19:55 PM|| 2005-03-24 12:19:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 It's the Hat Revolution!

Do a Yahoo news photos search for Jalal-abad and Sekretarev (the photog) and you'll see many many more.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-03-24 3:14:16 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-03-24 3:14:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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