Fugitive Kyrgyz President Warns of Bloodshed -- New York Times
TEYIT, Kyrgyzstan — The president of this strategically important country, who was forced from the capital last week by rioting protesters, returned to public view on Monday, holding a rally with supporters and declaring that if the interim government that supplanted him seeks his arrest, “there will be blood.”
The president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, has retreated to his ancestral stronghold here in southern Kyrgyzstan, several hours south of the capital, Bishkek. He has given interviews to journalists at his compound in recent days, but on Monday a crowd of 500 or so people gathered there for a demonstration.
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