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Kyrgyz leaders take risky bet on referendum (AP)

June 26th, 2010

An Ethnic Uzbek reacts near a relative's grave as Kyrgyz policemen dig up graves for investigation, at Uzbek cemetery in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Investigators in Kyrgyzstan began exhuming bodies Saturday of people killed during clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz last week that claimed hundreds of lives, risking creating a new wave of anger ahead of Sunday's crunch constitutional referendum. Deputy Interior Minster Bakyt Alynbayev said the bodies being exhumed were buried without proper procedure and without investigation into the cause of death. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyzstan holds a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a risky gamble amid deadly ethnic tensions but one the interim government hopes will legitimize their hold on power until new elections in October.


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