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Kyrgyzstan Braces for More UnrestPosted on Jun 16, 2010
After last week’s deadly conflict in Kyrgyzstan, officials are zeroing in on the possibility that the riots were the product of a coordinated group effort and preparing for the possibility that more trouble may be on the way. —KA
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By last_boy_scout, June 27, 2010 at 5:37 am Link to this comment
The number of victims is slightly exaggerated. The
number of victims counts in hundreds, but not thousands. I’m not trying to say that it is making it less tragic, just refferring to the facts.
What is more terrible is that the conflict is ethnic-grounded, meaning that it were yesterday’s neighbors who buthered each other’s wives and children.
There are still some Uzbeks who locked themselves up in their apartments, located at the Kyrgyz blocks. They became volunteer prisoners — but otherwise they’d have been dead in no time. This way they just die slowly, while their stock of food and water wears thin.
?heck out this article about the Kyrgyz atrocities — http://www.win.ru/en/school/4695.phtml. ?uthor says that the conflict may probably be fuelled by
Report thisUzbekistan. Well, maybe not fuelled, but the guys are definitely giving it a silent consent, not letting all of the ethnic Uzbek refugees to cross the border.
By last_boy_scout, June 27, 2010 at 5:36 am Link to this comment
The number of victims is slightly exaggerated. The
number of victims counts in hundreds, but not
thousands. I’m not trying to say that it is making it less tragic, just refferring to the facts.
What is more terrible is that the conflict is ethnic-grounded, meaning that it were yesterday’s neighbors who buthered each other’s wives and children.
There are still some Uzbeks who locked themselves up in their apartments, located at the Kyrgyz blocks. They became volunteer prisoners — but otherwise they’d have been dead in no time. This way they just die slowly, while their stock of food and water wears thin.
?heck out this article about the Kyrgyz atrocities — http://www.win.ru/en/school/4695.phtml. ?uthor
Report thissays that the conflict may probably be fuelled by
Uzbekistan. Well, maybe not fuelled, but the guys are definitely giving it a silent consent, not letting all of the ethnic Uzbek refugees to cross the border.