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Kyrgyz army tries to get control in riot-hit south (AP)

a Kyrgyz soldier direct Uzbek refugees in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh while waiting to cross the border into Uzbekistan, near the border with Uzbekistan, Monday, June 14, 2010. Some thousands of refugees have fled the pogrom that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Faruk Akkan,CHA) ** TURKEY OUT **AP - Kyrgyzstan’s weak and undersupplied military attempted Wednesday to regain control of the city of Osh, a major transit point for Afghan heroin and the epicenter of brutal rampages that have driven much of the ethnic Uzbek population from Kyrgyzstan’s poor, rural south.


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