Kyrgyz boss will not resign Sun, Apr eleven 2010 < 1 / 5 > JALALABAD REGION/BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, suspended in an overthrow last week, told Reuters on Sunday he would not renounce and that any try to kill him would "drown Kyrgyzstan in blood." The personality of the new halt government, meanwhile, pronounced Bakiyev could be put on hearing for shortcoming for the killings of at slightest 81 people during the fighting back opposite him.
The Apr 7 rebel in the Central Asian nation, where the United States operates an critical infantry base, forced Bakiyev to pour out to his southern home region, locking him in a deadlock with the self-proclaimed supervision in Bishkek.
Citing security concerns, Washington has stopped infantry drifting to Afghanistan around the air bottom outward the capital.
Speaking in a normal "yurt" tent in Jalalabad region, Bakiyev, 60, told Reuters he did not commend the legitimacy of the halt supervision but was rebuilt for talks.
"I would similar to to advise those who are right away sport for me: don"t be stipulate killers, given this will usually move outrageous tragedy to the country," he said.
"We will drown (Kyrgyzstan) in red red blood if they opt for earthy elimination. If they make make make use of of force, afterwards those people surrounding me will not let it happen, and this will meant bloodshed."
A alpine Muslim republic adjacent China, Kyrgyzstan"s $4.7 billion economy has captivated small unfamiliar investment given winning autonomy from the Soviet Union, but the United States and Russia are jostling for change in Central Asia.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke by phone on Saturday with halt supervision head Roza Otunbayeva, in the initial high-level U.S. hit with the new leadership.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was the initial universe personality to commend Otunbayeva"s authority, holding a phone review only hours after the antithesis took power.
Once a key Bakiyev fan who helped propel him to energy in an progressing series in 2005, Otunbayeva told Reuters in an talk she would not make make make use of of force opposite Bakiyev but spoke of impediment him to put him on hearing for the deaths.
"Bakiyev has to assimilate that he is stranded in a deadlock," Otunbayeva pronounced on Sunday. "When he is arrested afterwards ... it will be probable to lift out an review and subject him inside of the horizon of law."
She added: "What he did calls for a critical trial." Otunbayeva has indicted Bakiyev"s supporters of stoking assault in the issue of the uprising.
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The self-proclaimed supervision has pronounced Russia is the key fan and a little heading ministers have pronounced the U.S. franchise on the bottom could be shortened, raising conjecture that Moscow could try to make make make use of of the bottom as a push in family with Washington.
Pentagon officials contend the Manas air bottom is key to the fight opposite the Taliban, permitting round-the-clock flights in and out of Afghanistan. Some 50,000 infantry upheld by it last month.
In the call with Clinton, Otunbayeva affianced to respect agreements on the Manas base.
During the night of Apr 7-8, infantry constant to Bakiyev shot in to crowds of thousands of protesters besieging the presidential White House, murdering dozens.
Many protesters, armed with weapons seized from Bakiyev"s security forces, fought back, and witnesses pronounced a little people might have been killed in the indirect crossfire, witnesses said.
Bakiyev pronounced he had not systematic the shootings of protesters and that his infantry had retaliated rught away after a sniper shot at him in his bureau in the presidential White House.
"I have not fled (the country) because, initial of all, I do not feel any guilt," he said. He added, however, that he felt bewail as boss for being incompetent to forestall the deaths.
"I entice an independent, general commission to examine these comfortless events of Apr 7-8, given there cannot be any certitude in all these inquisitive bodies that have launched rapist record opposite me."
He pronounced U.N. peacekeeping forces were required to forestall "continuing chaos" in Kyrgyzstan.
But Otunbayeva warned that her supervision could not attest for Bakiyev"s security opposite those looking revenge.
"To be honest we can frequency curb those who are ready to pour out there (Bakiyev"s stronghold) with rifles," she said.
"Everyone between those killed has kin and friends. There are people who wish revenge. It"s a really supportive situation. You contingency assimilate that we won"t be means pledge his security ourselves."
(Writing by Maria Golovnina and Guy Faulconbridge; one more stating by Olga Dzyubenko in Bishkek; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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