Nationalism in Central Asia: A Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary by Nick Megoran

Author:Nick Megoran [Megoran, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Asian, Political Science, World, General
ISBN: 9780822982395
Google: CrE5DwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 32072571
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2017-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

After that, I couldn’t sleep. I was so angry, so upset. I lay there thinking, ordinary people have electricity to cook with, and can sit with the lights on and watch television with their children, but I can’t do that, and my son doesn’t feel like a human being because of it. How dare they! I was so angry, so, the next day, Solimirza and I wrote to Akaev and Karimov, and I went straight to the hokim of Nooken rayon, Tursunbay Anarbaev, and then to the KGB. At the KGB office, I met the head of the electricity supply service. He said to me, “You’re not Kyrgyzstani, you are Uzbekistani.” I was angry, so I asked him, “Are you saying that I am not Kyrgyz?” He replied: “Yes, I am, you’re not Kyrgyz.” Well, after he said that, I punched him, and the head of the KGB himself had to hold me back. Four KGB cars were tailing me on the way home, so I opened the window and held up a grenade, and threatened to throw it at them, so they backed off. I could have been arrested. Then I went to the to the Jalalabat akïm, Sharipov, and took a grenade with me. I threatened to use it, and blow myself up as well, unless this situation was resolved. He told me that it would be, I just had to go home, and indeed when I got home it was sorted out. The electricity was off for three days.

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