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Title: What Really Happened in Osh? Comparing the Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission Report with Indigenous Reports and Memoirs on the Violent Events of June 2010
Authors: Mamyrbekova, Meerim
Keywords: Osh events
Kyrgyzstan
Issue Date: 2018
Abstract: Despite the vast number of studies on the 2010 Osh Events, research on the comparative study of the official reports and indigenous memoirs on the interethnic conflict in the south of Kyrgyzstan have remained untapped. While anatomizing the tragic June events, scholars have focused mostly on the emergence of the conflict and used national and international reports to reference perceived facts or conclusions in their research. This Thesis provides a different perspective on the 2010 Osh Events by exploring international and national reports along with indigenous memoirs, while comparing contradictions and similarities in their conclusions. Using a combined methodology of qualitative content analysis of reports by: The Kyrgyzstan International Commission (the KIC); National, Parliamentary and Ombudsman’s Commissions; a report by Uzbekistani lawyer Suhrobjon Ismoilov; and two memoirs by prominent ethnic Kyrgyz politicians, Melis Myrzakmatov and Sadyr Japarov, in addition to in-depth interviews (N=9) with experts on Osh Events, this Thesis argues that the conclusions of national reports and indigenous memoirs contradict the conclusions proposed by the KIC, while ethnic Uzbek reports agree with it. Analysis of the indigenous ethnic Kyrgyz memoirs reveal that authors’ participation in the conflict, their political experiences and ethnic affiliations have shaped (and potentially biased) their viewpoints of the Osh Events. The study also reveals that while National and Parliamentary Commissions see former President Kurmanbek Bakiev’s clan and leaders of Uzbek community as instigators of the interethnic conflict, the Ombudsman’s Commission finds the legacy of the 1990 Osh Events as the main cause of the 2010 Osh Events.
URI: https://mt.osce-academy.kg/handle/123456789/147
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