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Kyrgyz city smolders as ethnic violence rages (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 Kyrgyz massed at the border Monday, an Uzbek leader said, as the deadliest ethnic violence to hit this Central Asian nation in decades left a major city smoldering.


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