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

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 in grim camps along the Uzbekistan border without adequate food or water.


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