OSH. May 30 (Interfax) - Head of the pro-governmental parliamentary group Ata-Zhurt (Fatherland) Kamchibek Tashiyev thinks that members of the former Kyrgyz interim government must stand trial for last year's inter-ethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan.
"The interim government of Kyrgyzstan must bear not only moral but also criminal responsibility for permitting clashes in the south last June," Tashiyev told voters in Osh, the center of southern Kyrgyzstan.
Three commissions - national, international and parliamentary - investigated the clashes, he said.
"They drew different conclusions but agreed on one thing - the interim government is the main culprit of the clashes," he said.
A few days from now, the parliament will listen to a report of the parliamentary commission on the events in Osh and Jalal-Abad, Tashiyev said. "The parliamentary commission will evaluate the actions of every member of the interim government to measure the degree of their responsibility for the bloodshed in the south," he said.
Ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek residents of Osh and Jalal-Abad clashed on June 10-15, 2010. More than 430 people were killed.
The interim government led by incumbent President Rosa Otunbayeva took office on April 7, 2010. Following the conflict in the south, the government admitted its moral responsibility for the events and accused separatist leaders of the local Uzbek community, criminals and associates of ex-president Kurmanbek Bakiyev of the incitement of the conflict.
More than 5,000 criminal cases were opened after the June events, including clashes, murders, robberies and arsons, but less than 10% of them developed into trials.