[A-List] Kyrgyzstan Descends Into Chaos

[Tony B.]

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Subject: [stopnato] Kyrgyzstan Descends Into Chaos



http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100613/159410845.html

Russian Information Agency Novosti
June 13, 2010

Latest: More than 75,000 ethnic Uzbeks flee to Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan

MOSCOW: More than 75,000 ethnic Uzbeks have fled to Uzbekistan from 
Kyrgyzstan, which has hit by violent ethnic clashes, as the Uzbek 
authorities have opened the border for refugees, an Uzbek Emergencies 
Ministry official said on Sunday.

"Most of them are women and old people. There are people with gunshot wounds 
among them," the official said.

Deadly ethnic riots swept through the country's second-largest city of Osh 
and another southern city of Jalalabad on Friday and Saturday. At least 97 
people were killed in clashes between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek groups.
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http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100613/159410696.html

Russian Information Agency Novosti
June 13, 2010

Death toll in Kyrgyz ethnic clashes rises to 97

Bishkek: Ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan has claimed the lives of at 
least 97 people, a local health ministry spokeswoman said on Sunday.

"Ninety-seven people have died in the Osh and Jalalabad regions. A total of 
1247 people have turned for medical help," the spokeswoman said.

Deadly ethnic riots swept through the country's second-largest city of Osh 
and another southern city of Jalalabad on Friday and Saturday.

Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek groups set ablaze cars, crushed the stores and 
markets as well as the residential houses. The looters have been rampaging 
through the streets during the days of rioting.

Earlier on Sunday, the Kyrgyz interim government introduced a state of 
emergency in the entire territory of the Jalalabad region and imposed a 
curfew in the area.

The state of emergency will be in effect until June 22, 2010, the interim 
government's decree said.

A round-the-clock curfew has been introduced in the city of Osh and the 
neighboring Kara-Suu and Aravan districts.

The interim government has allowed police and the troops to shoot to kill in 
order to quench the riots and stop marauders.

The Kyrgyz authorities have also issued a decree allowing the Defense 
Ministry to call up reservists aged under 50 to stabilize the situation in 
southern Kyrgyzstan.

Violence has been common in the former Soviet republic since opposition 
protests overthrew president Kurmanbek Bakiyev in early April. The president 
has fled the country and has taken refuge in Belarus.
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