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Uzbeks plead for help after return to Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 30th, 2010

Uzbek people talk in front of their burned houses in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Monday, June 28, 2010. International observers on Monday praised Kyrgyzstan's constitutional referendum, saying the vote was conducted in a largely transparent and remarkably peaceful manner despite the climate of fear lingering after recent ethnic violence. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - A simple plea is scrawled in meter-high (three-foot) letters across the charred remains of homes torched in violence against ethnic Uzbeks: SOS.


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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…

Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur (AP)

June 17th, 2010

Uzbek men overturn a burned car as they build a barricade in the Uzbek district of the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Thursday, June 17, 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 refugee crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful people without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - An estimated 400,000 people — nearly one-twelfth the population — have fled their homes to escape Kyrgyzstan’s ethnic violence, the U.N. said Thursday as throngs of refugees huddled…

UN says violence in Kyrgyzstan was orchestrated (AP)

June 15th, 2010

Uzbek woman Ranokhon who fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, cries showing photos of her grandchildren who she became separated from and had to leave them behind, as she waits for permission to cross into Uzbekistan, on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, at Jalal-Kuduk, Tuesday, June 15, 2010.  Uzbekistan closed the border Tuesday, leaving many camped out on the Kyrgyz side or stranded behind barbed-wire fences in no-man's land. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - The U.N. has found evidence of bloody intent behind the chaos in Kyrgyzstan that killed hundreds, left the nation’s second-biggest city a smoldering ruin and sent more than…

Uzbeks flee Kyrgyzstan, seek safety at border (AP)

June 14th, 2010

** CAPTION ADDITION, ADDS ID ** An Uzbek woman who identified herself only as Khadicha, and who fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh after her husband was killed and house burned down stands in line in no-man's-land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan, Monday, June 14, 2010. Tens of thousands of refugees fled pogroms that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - Standing behind barbed wire with other Uzbek refugees, the woman tearfully raised her hands in a Muslim prayer Monday for her dead husband. She had left his body…

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…

Uzbekistan: 75,000 Uzbeks flee 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, slaughtered their residents and looted police stations Sunday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years, sending…

Mobs burn villages, slaughter Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 13th, 2010

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP ** Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in southern Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday, June 12, 2010, 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 - Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents Sunday as ethnic rioting engulfed southern Kyrgyzstan. The government ordered troops to shoot rioters dead but even that measure…

Official: 30 killed in Kyrgyzstan village (AP)

June 13th, 2010

Members of ethnic Uzbek community armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails to protect their lives and property look at smoke  rising from the burning Uzbek villages  set on  fire by the Kyrgyz attackers near Osh, 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 - A senior military official says Kyrgyz mobs have killed about 30 Uzbeks in a village in southern Kyrgyzstan.


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