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100,000 Uzbek refugees seek safety at border (AP)

Uzbek emergency workers and volunteers pass traditional flat bread to ethnic Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk, Monday, June 14, 2010. Several hundred refugees fleeing ethnic violence gathered in no-man's-land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan. Tens of thousands of refugees fled pogroms that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - Some 100,000 minority Uzbeks fleeing a purge by mobs of Kygryz massed at the border Monday, an Uzbek leader said, as the deadliest ethnic violence to hit this Central Asian nation in decades left entire blocks of a major city burned to the ground.


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