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Kyrgyzstan Extends State of EmergencyPosted on Jun 13, 2010
The interim government of Kyrgyzstan has extended a state of emergency announced last week after ethnic violence erupted between Uzbek and Kyrgyz groups, killing more than 100 and extending to neighboring provinces. The violence began in the southern city of Osh on the border of Uzbekistan a week ago but has since spilled over to other areas in the region. —JCL
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By last_boy_scout, June 14, 2010 at 7:52 am Link to this comment
Being on the Russian part, I can say that events seem to be a provocation. A bloody and atrocious one, but that doesn’t change a thing. The previous riots resulted in the ascendancy of today’s interim government have started a mere week after the U.S. bases were banned from the country and its servicemen were made to leave within a 10-days term.
This might not necessarily be the provocation of last President Kurmanbek Bakiyev — he flee to Byelorussia, if I’m not mistaken. Still there are enough powers benefitting from destabilizing the situation in the region. I pity for the common folk who always suffer at the situation like that.
Surely, there’s a chance that these are the tricks of the southern clans who lost most part of their
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By Blackspeare, June 14, 2010 at 6:05 am Link to this comment
Uzbeks against Kyrgyz——I have one question——how do you tell the difference??!!
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