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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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