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Kyrgyz election yields uncertain result (AP)

October 11th, 2010

Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva casts her ballot at a polling station in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. After months of political instability and violence, voters turned out in force Sunday in Kyrgyzstan for parliamentary elections to choose a new and empowered parliament in the hope that it will usher in a new era of democracy, in sharp contrast to the strongman model exercised under President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted from power in April 2010 amid violent public demonstrations. A U.S. air base is hosted in Kyrgyzstan which is seen as strategically vital to the conflict in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service, Sagyn Ailchiev, pool)AP - The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan looked set to be headed for political stalemate Monday after no single party emerged a clear winner in this weekend’s parliamentary elections.


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Kyrgyzstan swears in caretaker president (AP)

July 3rd, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva gestures as she speaks to the media in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 27, 2010. Kyrgyzstan's interim president said voters approved a new constitution Sunday that will allow the Central Asian nation to form a legitimate government after months of turmoil. President Roza Otunbayeva called the referendum a success, saying it took place without incident and paves the way for holding parliamentary elections in the fall. The vote came just weeks after rampages killed as many as 2,000 people and forced 400,000 ethnic Uzbeks to temporarily flee. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s provisional leader Roza Otunbayeva has been sworn in as president, ushering in what the Central Asian nation’s government hopes will be a new era of stability and…

Kyrgyzstan OKs constitution after ethnic unrest (AP)

June 28th, 2010

Ethnic Kyrgyz refugee women cast ballot paper inside a tent in refugee camp outskirts the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 27, 2010 during a referendum on a new constitution. The people of violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday on a new constitution that the interim government hopes will legitimize the power it seized after a deadly uprising. The Central Asian nation was on high security alert for the vote, deploying almost 8,000 police officers and an equal number of defense volunteers to keep the peace after ethnic violence that killed hundreds. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Election officials in Kyrgyzstan said Monday the public has overwhelmingly backed a new constitution, a key step toward stability in this Central Asian nation still reeling from deadly…

Weeks after violence, Kyrgyzstan constitution OK’d (AP)

June 28th, 2010

Ethnic Kyrgyz refugee women cast ballot paper inside a tent in refugee camp outskirts the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 27, 2010 during a referendum on a new constitution. The people of violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday on a new constitution that the interim government hopes will legitimize the power it seized after a deadly uprising. The Central Asian nation was on high security alert for the vote, deploying almost 8,000 police officers and an equal number of defense volunteers to keep the peace after ethnic violence that killed hundreds. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Election officials in Kyrgyzstan say the Central Asian nation’s public has overwhelmingly backed a new constitution.


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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…

Kyrgyz city smolders as ethnic violence rages (AP)

June 14th, 2010

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…

Fresh ethnic violence erupts in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 14th, 2010

Doctor speak to an ethnic Kyrgyz man reportedly injured during Sunday's clashes near the Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan at a hospital in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Monday, June 14, 2010. Sporadic gunfire continued through the night and fresh fires raged in southern Kyrgyzstan on Monday, as the Central Asian nation's worst ethnic violence in decades that prompted thousands to flee showed no signs of abating. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Sporadic gunfire continued through the night and fresh fires raged in southern Kyrgyzstan on Monday. The Central Asian nation’s worst ethnic violence in decades showed no signs of…

75,000 Uzbeks flee ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 13th, 2010

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP ** Ethnic Uzbeks residences burn after being torched by Kyrgyz men, in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. In Jalal-Abad on Sunday, thousands of Kyrgyz men brandishing sticks, metals bars and hunting rifles gathered at the city's horse racing track and marched out to burn Uzbek property while frightened police stayed away. (AP Photo/Zarip Toroyev)AP - Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents Sunday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years, sending more than 75,000…

Russia won’t immediately send troops to Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 12th, 2010

Ethnic Uzbek gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in southern Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday, June 12, 2010, trying to seek refuge in Uzbekistan from mobs of Kyrgyz men attacking the minority Uzbek community. The country's second-largest city, Osh, slid into chaos Friday when gangs of young Kyrgyz men armed with firearms and metal rods marched on Uzbek neighborhoods and set their homes on fire. Thousands of terrified ethnic Uzbeks were fleeing toward the nearby border with Uzbekistan.(AP Photo/D. Dalton Bennett)AP - Kyrgyzstan asked Russia for military help Saturday to quell ethnic rioting in the central Asian nation, but the Kremlin refused to immediately send troops and offered only humanitarian…

45 killed, more than 600 wounded in Kyrgyz rioting (AP)

June 11th, 2010

A man looks at a vandalized Kyrgyz building in the streets of Osh. Kyrgyzstan's interim government declared a state of emergency and slapped a curfew on southern parts of the country Friday after ethnic clashes left at least 17 people dead and around 150 injured.(AFP)AP - Mobs of armed men torched Uzbek neighborhoods in Kyrgyzstan on Friday in ethnic clashes that officials said left at least 45 people dead and 637 wounded in a…

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