Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression in Kyrgyzstan
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Memorial Complex for Victims of Repression "Ata-Beyit" S. Chun-Tash
Recognizing human rights and freedoms as the highest social value of the state and society, condemning the mass terror of thousands of people, expressing its commitment to building a democratic and rule of law state based on ideological and political pluralism, creating effective mechanisms for protecting the rights and freedoms of a citizen, the responsibility of the state for their violation, as well as in pursuance of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic "On the rights and guarantees of rehabilitated citizens who suffered as a result of repression for political and religious beliefs, on social, national and other grounds" the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic established by its Resolution of January 18, 2008 N 74-IV-30 October as the Day of memory of victims of political repression in the Kyrgyz Republic.
However, after much discussion and consultation with the country's historians, the parliament of the republic admitted that it had violated the principle of historical authenticity by following the example of Russia and setting the date of October 30, since in each republic this date is tied to specific local events.
There are two dates in Kyrgyzstan - November 5 and November 8, 1938, when 137 citizens of our country were shot.
The date of November 8, when the second batch of prisoners was dispersed, is considered fair and reliable. That is why on October 10, 2008, a change in the date from October 30 to November 8 was introduced in the resolution adopted in January 2008.
The decision was taken as a tribute to the memory of those who died from mass repressions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan in 1937-1938.
According to archival data in the 30s of the XX century in Kyrgyzstan was repressed and shot tens of thousands of people.
According to official data, 12.5 million citizens of the USSR became victims of Stalin’s repressions.
During the Great Terror of 1937-1938, more than one and a half million people were arrested in the USSR and almost half of them were shot. The rehabilitation of victims of political repression began in 1954.
On August 30, 1991, a state mourning ceremony was held for the reburial of the remains of victims of Stalinist repressions found at Chon-Tash. On August 31, 1991, the independence of Kyrgyzstan was proclaimed.
In the memorial complex to the victims of repressions "Ata-Beyit" village Chon-Tash Chui region (30 km from the capital - the city of Bishkek) buried the bodies of 137 Kyrgyz 19 nationalities, called by the Soviet authorities "enemies of the people" and shot without trial and investigation.
Bodies were thrown into a brick-fire oven on Chon Tasha: Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jews. Among them are the founders of the Kyrgyz Soviet state, the first Commissars, the color of the first Kyrgyz intelligentsia. Yusup Abdrakhmanov, the creator of the grammar of the Kyrgyz language - Kassym Tynystanov, Bayali Isakeev, Torekul Aitmatov (father of Chingiz Aitmatov), Asanbai Jamansariev, a shepherd from Issyk-Kul Chekush Suleymanov, a collective farmer from Alexandrovka Harti Khunlava, an accountant from Kara-Balta Boris Beloshitsky, a teacher from Leninpol Boris Berman.
Chon-Tash is the only documented place of crimes of the state against its own people in Kyrgyzstan, a tragic symbol of the common national disaster.
In the instructions of the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz SSR on bringing “decisions of the NKVD, the Prosecutor of the USSR and the Special Troika of the NKVD of the Kyrgyz SSR over convicts to be shot” are clearly visible dates: November 5, 1938 and November 8, 1938. As well as execution orders and acts of execution - on the same days. These documents were published and made public after independence.
The dates of November 5 and 8, the political leadership and the public of Kyrgyzstan consider as days of commemoration.