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Kyrgyzstan says Islamist groups sparked violence (AP)

June 24th, 2010

An ethnic Uzbek boy seen near a burnt house in the Osh district Unadyr, southern Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, June 24, 2010. Osh, a leafy and ethnically diverse city of 250,000 people on the eastern fringes of the fertile Ferghana Valley, was wracked by ethnic clashes between ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz communities last week that claimed hundreds of lives. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s security agency claimed Thursday that relatives of the toppled president colluded with the Taliban and other Islamic militant movements to provoke the ethnic violence that has destabilized the Central Asian nation.


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