State Committee for National Security (Kyrgyzstan)

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State Committee for National Security (UKMK)
Улуттук коопсуздук боюнча мамлекеттик комитети (Kyrgyz)
Государственный комитет национальной безопасности (Russian)
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Special service overview
Formed20 November 1993 (original agency)
12 April 2007 (current form)
Preceding agencies
Jurisdiction President of Kyrgyzstan
Headquarters70 Erkindik Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan [1]
Annual budget Classified information
Special service executive
Website gknb.gov.kg

The State Committee for National Security (SCNS-KR) [lower-alpha 1] is the national agency responsible for intelligence on counter terrorism and organised crime in Kyrgyzstan. In carrying out this task, it carries out both preventive and investigative measures against organized terrorism and crime. The chairman of the UKMK is a military officer and a member of the Security Council of Kyrgyzstan. [2] It is currently based on 70 Erkindik Street, Bishkek. [3]

Contents

Official tasks

The activities of the UKMK include:

History

The history of the modern Kyrgyz intelligence services dates back to December 1917, when the communist All-Russian Emergency Commission (VChK) was formed. A year later, on the Pishpek district investigation commission was established. After national delimitation occurred in the early 1920s, Regional State Political Directorate of the Kara-Kyrgyz Autonomous Oblast was created. Later on the Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Kyrgyz SSR was formed, which served as the republican affiliate for the national KGB agency. On 20 November 1991, President Askar Akayev signed a presidential decree establishing the UKMK. Since 2007 after the Tulip Revolution, the State Committee for National Security has been operating in its current form. [4] [5] [6]

In August 2002, the State Border Guard Service was established as a part of the UKMK, having been merged with the Main Border Guard Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the Main Directorate of Border Control of the UKMK that day. This was done to have a more centralised intelligence system in Kyrgyzstan. In the years that followed, the UKMK would have little influence on the border guard service until it was finally removed from the National Security Committee on 4 September 2012, it was and was re-established as an independent department in the government. [7]

Special Forces

The UKMK controls the Alpha anti-terrorist unit, which like all former Soviet countries refers to a top-secret special forces unit. The unit helps deliver on the tasks listed above. In August 2010, fighters of the unit went on strike in protest against the arrest of their former chief Almaz Dzholdoshaliyev. They appealed to President Roza Otunbayeva with a demand to change the measure of restraint for the detained UKMK officers. In response, the Prosecutor General's Office opened criminal cases against nine employees of the unit, accusing them of shooting at demonstrators during the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010. [8]

Criticisms

Political repression

Following his party's success in the 2010 Kyrgyz parliamentary election, on 23 October, the home of Kamchybek Tashiev was burglarized. He later stated to Al Jazeera that "they broke in like bandits" and "tried to eliminate me", adding that "for sure, GSNB [security services] was behind these actions." [9] Tashiev later became Chairman of the UKMK.

Chairman

Awards

Since its establishment, the UKMK has sported many commemorative awards such as the following: [14]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Russian: Государственный комитет национальной безопасности (ГКНБ); Kyrgyz: Улуттук коопсуздук боюнча мамлекеттик комитети (УKMK), romanized: Uluttuk koopsuzduk boiuncha mamlekettik komiteti (UKMK)

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