Supporters of Kyrgyzstani President Kurmanbek...
brother of the deposed Kyrgyz president and the former head of state security, has warned the opposition that any attempts to arrest Bakiyev would be met with a harsh and merciless response.The Bakiyev brothers have holed up in the suburbs of Jalal-Abad. Some media sources earlier reported that the new Kyrgyzstani authorities had sent a Special Forces unit to apprehend the ousted president.
"He [Bakiyev] is the legitimate president, nobody has relieved him from his duties, he did not resign, and we will protect him until the end," Zhanybek Bakiyev told RIA Novosti on Sunday.
He said the president"s supporters were ready to fight the opposition, although he would not want to see his country embroiled in civil war.
OPPOSITION LOOKS FOR ALLIES ABROAD
Almazbek Atambayev, a first deputy prime minister in the interim government, who held talks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, said Russia should give Kyrgyzstan more
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