A series of contract killings rocked Kyrgyzstan in the eighteen months that passed after the March 2005 revolution. Assassins shot deputy Jyrgalbek Surabaldiyev in the center of the Kyrgyzstan capital in the middle of June 2005. Bajaman Erkinbayev, another deputy of the parliament and "sponsor" of the March events, was assassinated that autumn. Rioting inmates of a penitentiary establishment murdered Tynych Akmatbayev, chairman of the security committee of the parliament, soon after that. His brother Ryspek, chieftain and failed lawmaker, was murdered in May 2006. Leader of the Osh Uzbek center and deputy of the municipal legislature, Aibek Alimjanov was shot last Sunday.

Alisher Sabirov, deputy of the Jogorku Kenesh (national parliament of Kyrgyzstan), maintains that there exists a certain list with four names on them. Prominent parliamentarians on the list are marked for assassination too, and soon. Sabirov, politician and lawyer, made the announcement before the Jogorku Kenesh meeting on October 17.

Sabirov is convinced that acting Interior Minister Osmonaly Guronov knows what deputies of the parliament are on the black list. He demands publication of the list so that lawmakers will be able to hire bodyguards and stiffen security.

As far as Sabirov is concerned, Guronov must update the parliament on what is being done to investigate Alimjanov's assassination in Osh. As a matter of fact, the parliamentarian does not think that the investigation is going out of its way to solve the crime.

Instead of running the investigation the way it should be run, law enforcement agencies harass Osh businessmen, Sabirov said.

"Security structures ransack houses of businessmen looking for weapons and drugs. Either criminals are identified and bagged within ten days, or I will demand resignation of the upper echelons of Osh law enforcement agencies," Sabirov concluded.

Ferghana.Ru news agency