The Spectator has a fascinating article about Kyrgyz opposition leader Dr. Jenishbek Nazaraliev and his role in Bishkek’s “Tulip Revolution”:
In a white room in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a tattooed man from Georgia is trembling violently. His eyes are rolled back to the whites, his spine is arched, his arms flail in front of him as if he is being electrocuted. Behind him stands another man, Asiatic, completely bald, with dark piercing eyes. He shouts, almost raps, into the convulsing Georgian’s ears,”Drive out the filth! You are a strong man, charged with energy! Help yourself out of this!” He repeats this over and over until the Georgian has a spasm and collapses in a trance. He is put on to a stretcher, carried out of the room and laid in a bed with high metal sides.The man with the dark piercing eyes is Jenishbek Nazaraliev, the ‘miracle worker’ of Bishkek, who claims to have cured more than 15,000 drug addicts from all over the world in his medical centre, using his unique hypnotic method. He also claims to have caused the revolution which last month swept President Askar Akayev and his family from power in Kyrgyzstan. ‘I screwed Akayev, and I made this revolution,’ the doctor told me proudly in Bishkek, a few days after the fall of the government.
UPDATE: Ferghana.ru reports Dr. Nazaraliev has announced that he will run for president of Kyrygyzstan.
Editor’s Note: I want to give a tip of the hat to Hulegu and Ben for sending this article when it was first published. I’ve been too lazy to read it, so kudos to Laurence for posting it. If the link Laurence provided goes down (check the domain), contact me through the site’s contact form for a copy of the article — Nathan
