WASHINGTON — The United States is planning to move ahead with construction of a $10 million military training base in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, the site of a bloody uprising in June against the new government that reportedly left more than 300 dead.
Called the Osh Polygon, the base was proposed under former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev as a facility to train Kyrgyz troops for counterterrorism operations. After the ouster of Bakiyev on charges of corruption, discussions continued under the new Kyrgyz president, Roza Otunbayeva, with whose government Washington is trying to broaden relationships.
Home to an air base key to U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, the country is far from stabilized.
On Thursday, police in Bishkek, firing guns in the air, stopped demonstrations by supporters of an opposition party government officials said was funded by the Bakiyev family. The Washington Post
