Ethnic

Rioting hits Guinea towns as ethnic tensions rise (AP)

October 25th, 2010

AP - Members of the Malinke ethnic group rioted in four towns in Guinea, killing one man and leaving Peul-owned stores in ruins as ethnic violence spread from the capital…

Guinea vote delays may stoke ethnic divisions (AP)

September 16th, 2010

Soldiers inspect burned voting materials after a warehouse stocking supplies for rural polling stations caught fire, at a military base in central Conakry, Guinea Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A critical presidential runoff in Guinea has been postponed by at least two weeks, an official said Thursday, the same day that a warehouse full of voting materials caught fire in the capital, developments that may stoke ethnic divisions at the heart of the vote.(AP Photo)AP - Election officials on Thursday confirmed that a critical presidential runoff in Guinea has been postponed by at least two weeks as the warehouse storing voting materials for the…

Afghan army struggles with ethnic divisions (AP)

July 27th, 2010

This combination photograph shows portraits of  Afghan National Army soldiers following a patrol made on  Sunday, July 11, 2010, at the United States Army's Combat Outpost Ware, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, near Kandahar City, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - The Afghan soldiers look like they belong. They wear beards, carry Soviet-era rifles and stride confidently through fields of wheat, melons and okra. In one village, a young…

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…

Ethnic Uzbeks refuse to go home in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 20th, 2010

Ethnic Uzbek men gather at the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border near the southern Kyrgyz village of Sakaldy, Saturday, June 19, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Thousands of ethnic Uzbeks massed on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan refused to return home Sunday, saying they feared for their lives after violent pogroms and don’t…

Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold…

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…

Ethnic rioting spreads in Kyrgyzstan, with 80 dead (AP)

June 13th, 2010

A 14-year-old  boy, an ethnic Uzbek reportedly shot in the head by a sniper during recent clashes, lies in a truck together with other wounded people before transportation to the hospital in the village of Naramon, near Osh airport, southern Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday, June 12, 2010. 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 - Ethnic violence is spreading across southern Kyrgyzstan, where at least 80 people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded.


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