BISHKEK. June 7 (Interfax) - A working group set up by the Kyrgyz State National Security Committee, Interior Ministry and Prosecutor General's Office is reconstructing the timeline and circumstances of the June 2010 events, the Kyrgyz president's press office told Interfax.
A report prepared by the working group contains an analysis of the causes and circumstances of the tragic events, which occurred in and around the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad in May-June 2010, based on the existing files, records and new emerging evidence.
The inter-ethnic conflict between the ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks was provoked by the entourage of the deposed president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, and separatist leaders, as well as the underworld, drug criminals and external forces, the authors said.
To confirm this thesis, the working group analyzed the actions of separatist leaders and those seeking a reprisal, a telephone conversation between the ex-president's brother and son and other arguments.
"The escalation of ethnic tensions was caused by the destructive actions of the aforesaid forces, which at the same time sought to demonstrate their influence on the southern region's population to the new Kyrgyz authorities," the working group said in the document.
The conflict that occurred on June 10-14, 2010, killed 442 people, 421 of whom were identified. Two hundred ninety-five of them were ethnic Uzbeks, 123 ethnic Kyrgyz, and three represented other ethnicities (Russian, Pakistani and Uigur).
Criminal charges were brought against 545 people, including 400 ethnic Uzbeks, 133 ethnic Kyrgyz and eight of other ethnicities.
Ethnic tensions and foundations for the conflict erupting in southern parts of Kyrgyzstan were laid down long before 2010, the working group said.
Over the 20 years of independence, the central government failed to provide conditions for active cultural integration between various ethnic communities in Kyrgyzstan, experts said. "The spiritual and cultural values of the Kyrgyz and other ethnicities populating the republic did not become a source of mutual enrichment and mutual understanding. Nor had any significant progress been reached on the question of forming a common civic identity," the working group said.
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has forwarded the document to the country's parliament and government.