Ata Beyit Memorial
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Barbara W
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Oct 2018 • Friends
Ata Beyit translates as "Grave of Our Fathers." This monument is structured on three levels and memorializes those who lost their lives during various horrific events in the last 100 years. On the upper level is the memorial to those who died in the 1916 Ukran, or Exodus. Over 150,000 Kyrgyz died while trying to seek refuge in China. They perished in the Tien Shen mountains, the victims of dangerous terrain and bitter cold.
The middle level is constructed over the site where 137 Kyrgyz intelligentsia were murdered during a Stalin purge in 1938. The site of the mass killing was kept secret until 1991 when it was finally revealed by the daughter of a guard who witnessed it and told her of it on his deathbed. In the rear is a memorial to Chingiz Aitmatov, a famous Kyrgyz writer, who was the son of Törökul Aitmatov, one of the murdered intelligentsia.
Sixteen of 89 protestors killed during the 2010 uprising are also buried here. The others are all buried nearby with a separate monument.
The middle level is constructed over the site where 137 Kyrgyz intelligentsia were murdered during a Stalin purge in 1938. The site of the mass killing was kept secret until 1991 when it was finally revealed by the daughter of a guard who witnessed it and told her of it on his deathbed. In the rear is a memorial to Chingiz Aitmatov, a famous Kyrgyz writer, who was the son of Törökul Aitmatov, one of the murdered intelligentsia.
Sixteen of 89 protestors killed during the 2010 uprising are also buried here. The others are all buried nearby with a separate monument.
Written 23 November 2018
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