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Kyrgyzstan Death Toll Put at Near 2,000

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Posted on Jun 18, 2010
Al Jazeera English

Ethnic Uzbeks who fled their homes in Kyrgyzstan gather along a fence on the border with Uzbekistan.

As ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan continued to brutalize the country, interim leader Rosa Otunbayeva paid her first visit there and expressed fear that the death toll could reach 2,000 in the former Soviet republic.

An estimated 400,000 of Kyrgyzstan’s 5.3 million people have fled the violence, many to refugee camps on the Uzbekistan border. —JCL

The Guardian:

Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader Rosa Otunbayeva said today that the death toll from savage ethnic violence in the south of the country could be as high as 2,000, as she paid her first visit to the region since the n unrest began.

Otunbayeva, who pledged that the hundreds of thousands of Uzbek refugees would be allowed to return home, told Russian media that she would “multiply by 10” the official death toll of 191.

Without mentioning the Uzbek community by name, Otunbayeva said the wrecked city of Osh would be rebuilt. After arriving by military helicopter, she visited Osh’s inter-regional hospital, where Kyrgz victims of the conflict are being treated.

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By last_boy_scout, June 27, 2010 at 6:41 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 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.

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By poonckie, June 18, 2010 at 11:33 pm Link to this comment

This is the scene that would occur here if the Bachmans,Whitman, and their media cronies had their way. I worry everytime I see Americans at rallies packing guns and holding signs advocating the violent overthrow of our Government. I don’t think they realize the chaos that such events always creates. Palin with her “lock and load” Whitman with her “second amendment solution” to a Democratic Government majority, candidates making commercials about the American revolution and how that should be our solution. Scary.

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By Leefeller, June 18, 2010 at 9:20 am Link to this comment

Nothing changes, ethnic violence forever more!

Differences are unacceptable, so the person with the
biggest stick wins!

This reminds me of the Norwegians, Swedish and Danes,
those ethnic differences mean a lot to the Norwegians
Swedish and Danes, of course no one likes the Finns!

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