The Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission Panel Composition Published (15.10.2010)

Seven panel members have been named as members of an independent international inquiry commission which will investigate, who was responsible for the violent outburst in Kyrgyzstan in the summer of 2010. The first meeting of the Commission was held in Helsinki 14.–15. October. The nomination of the members of the commission is based on extensive consultations with the United Nations, the European Union and other international organizations.

 

The chairman of the commission is Kimmo Kiljunen, a Finnish MP and a Special Representative of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly for Central Asia. The Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) acts as the secretariat of the commission.  The members of the panel are the following:

  • Philip Alston, Professor of Law at New York University, Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Australia)
  • Yakin Erturk, former UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Professor of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
  • Brigitte Horbette, Judge at the Paris Court of Appeals, Former Secretary-General of Office Francais de Protection des Refugies et Apatrides (OFPRA), President of section at the national court for asylum (France)
  • Rein Müllerson, Former First Deputy Foreign Minister, President of the Academy of Law at Tallinn University, Former United Nations Regional Adviser for Central Asia (Estonia)
  • Valery Tishkov, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
  • Ralph Zacklin, Former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Member of the Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste (UK)

 

The head of the investigation is Anna Matveeva. Six independent researchers will begin their work in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 18 October and other researchers will join them at a later time. The panel members will travel to Kyrgyzstan in November.

 

The commission will publish a report on the background and causes of the violence, including responsibility for and course of the events. In its report, the commission shall also make recommendations. The report is set to be published by the end of January 2011. The initiative for the independent and impartial examination of the violence comes from the Nordic Governments.

 

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