THE KYRGYZ REVOLUTION: ONE STEP AHEAD OR TWO STEPS BACK?
By Kunduz Jenkins (9/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Recently, ex-president Askar Akaev and his supporters have given a number of interviews and statements in the mass media and in public appearances, arguing that the March Revolution regressed the country with an accompanying huge rollback in its development. They also claim that the country achieved impressive results in implementing democratic and economic reforms under the rule of the former president. Yet actual facts demonstrate the opposite.THE CENTRAL ASIAN DIMENSION OF RUSSO-CHINESE EXERCISES
By Stephen Blank (9/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Although these were ostensibly anti-terrorist exercises, Chinese Chief of Staff Liang Guanglie stated that they were directed against terrorism, separatism, and extremism. While the operations conducted here clearly represent the kinds of operations China might conduct against Taiwan which it regards as a separatist province, China also regards the threat posed by Muslim insurgents in Xinjiang as separatism and extremism based on religion and quite clearly regards those who conduct these ”separatist” operations as terrorists. Nevertheless these exercises’ scale and scope suggest a large-scale conventional operation rather than an anti-terrorist mission.KREMLIN CALLS FOR “CIVILIZED” RULES OF THE GAME IN EURASIA
By Mark Simakovsky (9/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: In December 1991, the CIS was created to help manage the collapse of the Soviet Union and resulting economic and political instability. The Kremlin hoped to maintain Russian leadership and supremacy in Eurasia by turning the CIS into a tightly knit economic union and collective security arrangement. After 14 years, a collection of ineffectual summits, unimplemented treaties and unfulfilled promises has highlighted the slow death of the CIS.REFORMING THE PAKISTANI MADARIS
By Naveed Ahmad (9/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Pakistani religious schools (madaris) have been in the international spotlight since 9/11. British investigators’ initial claim that two of the suspected July 7 London suicide bombers had attended madaris in Pakistan proved a real catalyst, thus forcing General Musharraf to threaten the religious schools to register themselves with the government by December 31 or face closure. While the move has given impetus to the country’s inefficient bureaucracy, the religious schools by and large reject the exercise “being carried out under foreign pressure”.Visit also
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