Former Interior Minister of Kyrgyzstan Kashkar Junushaliev "fled like a coward" even before mass protests started in the country, Acting Interior Minister Kursan Asanov announced this on Thursday.
"No one was suspending him, he just wasn't there. He ran away. He left, ran away like a coward," Asanov said. When asked if he was during the rallies on the 5th, Asanov reported that "he ran away earlier".
Asanov also added that two Deputy Ministers of Internal Affairs continue to work. One of them is in Osh.
On October 4 parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan. On Tuesday night representatives of parties that did not pass to the highest legislative body, organized mass disorders in the center of Bishkek, seized the parliament building. Protesters released former president Almazbek Atambayev, former prime minister Sapar Isakov and a number of other politicians from the detention center. The Kyrgyz Central Election Commission declared the election results null and void. Earlier Datsanbek Jumabekov resigned from his post as chairman of parliament.
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