It was stressed, for instance, that Manas’ wife Kanikay was of Tajik origin and that his best friend and advisor was Chinese (Akayev was preparing to sell off chunks of sovereign territory to China at the time), while many of his soldiers were not Kyrgyz in the strictest sense of the word.
Por ejemplo, se destacó que Kanikay, la esposa de Manas, era de origen tayiko y que su mejor amigo y consejero era chino (Akayev se preparaba para vender trozos de territorio soberano a China en ese momento), mientras que muchos de sus soldados no eran kirguisos en el sentido más estricto de la palabra.