OSH. Aug 6 (Interfax) - A youth organization in Kyrgyzstan has warned that mass protests could break out if the government does not stop the deployment of an unarmed OSCE police mission in the south.
"The authorities should remember that they came to the House of Government through promising to obey the people, and the people don't want the OSCE police force to be brought to the republic," Sononbek Zhunusbekov, a leader of the Ak Kyzmat organization, told Interfax on Friday.
Otherwise, people will start mass protests in the capital, Bishkek, and the southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad, Zhunusbekov said.
The organization has demanded that the Kyrgyz leadership give an official response to their ultimatum by August 10.
However, in light of anti-government protests that broke out in Bishkek on Thursday, Ak Kyzmat pushed the date back to August 11.
The police force, made up of international police officers, is expected to arrive in Osh and Jalal-Abad in early September.