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Kyrgyz Riots Spread In Apparent Ethnic Violence
Russia appears to be leery of adding more to its already full plate of Chechen ethnic unrest...
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Kyrgyz Riots Spread In Apparent Ethnic Violence
NYT, 13 June 2010
Rioting spread across the south of this strategically important Central Asian nation on Sunday as the authorities failed to contain mobs that appeared to be increasingly engaging in targeted ethnic violence.
The official death toll from four days of clashes neared 100 people, though the unrest seemed so widespread that the figure is likely to go far higher. Reports from the region said bands of ethnic Kyrgyz were seeking out Uzbeks, setting fire to their homes and killing them.
Thousands of Uzbeks have fled to the nearby border with Uzbekistan, and the authorities were said to have lost control of Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city.
On Saturday, the fragile Kyrgyz provisional government asked neighboring Russia to send in peacekeeping troops, but Russia, which has a small military base in the north and has been a political patron of this former Soviet republic, said only that it would consider the request.
(cont'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/wo...er=rss&emc=rss
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