Never had any faith in this new "government". From day one many of their moves were weird, and designed to cicumvent the popular will. Everyone should have been alarmed by the "government's" decision to run a referendum on a new Constitution! If this was not enough to engage alarm bells, I do not know what will. How can a group of people assembled after a simple coup dismiss the Parliament, Constitutional Court and all other bodies of governance, and then, in seclusion write a new Constitution! To make it funnier, the approval was to be carried out through referendum, the very vehicle that is in case of Akayev considered illegal and punishable! There was much stink in the "Constitution". For starters, it aimed to prohibit any party from having a majority in Parliament, a device that is used in colonial outfits to insure that elite of the country is divided and at the mercy of foreign control. A country that does not have a right to vote for a party of its choice, but is permanently doomed to hung parliament, is up to no good. The sudden violence against Uzbeks was another stinky affair, setting up a stage for OSCE, that is, various intelligence types posing as peacekeepers. Everybody was understandably tired of Bakiyev and his mercenary ways. Even being banished is not stopping him to be of use; his son has "political asylum" in England! Bakiyev was usefull, but not stable. Now, a more stable and permanent control of Kyrgizstan can begin. The shot at Russia has been fired. No, no extradition of Bakiyev, but of Akayev! Bakiyev was after all their own "tulip", gone bad. Now, pure tulips are in power. A referendum on Consitituion that nobody read or evaluated has given them the legitimacy??? It is clear from who is in the government and who is not. But they have started flexing muscles a bit too soon. Rosa is a front and has no constituency behind her, her influence on tribes may prove a figment of western imagination.

When is play time going to be over in the Kyrgyzstan sandbox?