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The government of Kyrgyzstan is racked with controversy. The head of the National Security Service (SNB), Busurmankul Tabaldiyev, tendered his resignation Tuesday, and President Kurmanbek Bakiyev fired his own brother, Zhanysh Bakiyev, from the post of SNB deputy director.
The incident that led to the dismissal was the detention of Member of Parliament Omurbek Tekebayev in Poland on Sept. 6. A wooden matryoshka doll was discovered in his luggage, stuffed with 595 grams of heroin. Tekebayev was dismissed from custody with apologies two days later as evidence began to surface that he had been framed.
Closed-circuit camera footage from Kyrgyzstan's Manas airport captured Tekebayev's luggage being taken away by a uniformed airport security service officer and returned 14 minutes later by the same man, who looked on as the bag was x-rayed. Then a parliamentary commission, formed to investigate the incident, discovered a written statement implicating Zhanysh Bakiyev in personally arranging the smear operation against Tekebayev.
The Kyrgyz government is not exactly a shining example of transparency and stability, but this operation was a clumsy attempt to discredit Tekebayev, who resigned as speaker of parliament in February and has since been a vocal critic of the president.
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