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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 more than 75,000 Uzbek refugees fleeing across the border into Uzbekistan.


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