14-06-2010, 08:24 AM
Kyrgyz violence triggers Uzbek exodus
Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:03:06 GMT
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A burned-out Uzbek residence smolders after being torched by Kyrgyz men in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, on Sunday.
Ethnic bloodshed in Kyrgyzstan has run amok for the forth successive day, forcing over 75,000 minority Uzbeks to flee across the border into Uzbekistan.
The rampage, which first began last Thursday between minority Uzbeks and ethnic Kyrgyz groups mainly in the southern city of Osh, remains unabated as reports on Monday indicate that Kyrgyz mobs have set fire to stores, houses and villages belonging to the Uzbeks and slaughtered those who attempted to flee.
The Thursday riots, which claimed more than 100 people lives and left over 1,100 injured, were the worst ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan in two decades and the bloodiest since former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was toppled in April .
In the wake of the unrest, thousands of Uzbeks have fled in panic to the nearby border with Uzbekistan after their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men, Associated Press reported, quoting several witnesses.
Most of the refugees were elderly people, women and children, and many had gunshot wounds, according to a statement issued by Uzbek Emergencies Ministry.
Thousands of machete-wielding youths indulged in looting Uzbek properties in south Kyrgyzstan's Jalal-Abad region on Sunday while police forces were seen on the defensive fearing the violence may thoroughly spiral out of control.
Meanwhile, Interim President Roza Otunbayeva accused Bakiyev`s family of being behind the unrest, saying the former president has conspired to disrupt a June 27 constitutional referendum and new elections due in October, an accusation that was flatly denied by Bakiyev, who currently lives in exile.
Earlier on Sunday, Russian security officials said a battalion of paratroopers have been deployed in the turmoil-hit country, home to US and Russian military facilities in the Central Asian region.
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Ethnic bloodshed in Kyrgyzstan has run amok for the forth successive day, forcing over 75,000 minority Uzbeks to flee across the border into Uzbekistan.
The rampage, which first began last Thursday between minority Uzbeks and ethnic Kyrgyz groups mainly in the southern city of Osh, remains unabated as reports on Monday indicate that Kyrgyz mobs have set fire to stores, houses and villages belonging to the Uzbeks and slaughtered those who attempted to flee.
The Thursday riots, which claimed more than 100 people lives and left over 1,100 injured, were the worst ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan in two decades and the bloodiest since former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was toppled in April .
In the wake of the unrest, thousands of Uzbeks have fled in panic to the nearby border with Uzbekistan after their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men, Associated Press reported, quoting several witnesses.
Most of the refugees were elderly people, women and children, and many had gunshot wounds, according to a statement issued by Uzbek Emergencies Ministry.
Thousands of machete-wielding youths indulged in looting Uzbek properties in south Kyrgyzstan's Jalal-Abad region on Sunday while police forces were seen on the defensive fearing the violence may thoroughly spiral out of control.
Meanwhile, Interim President Roza Otunbayeva accused Bakiyev`s family of being behind the unrest, saying the former president has conspired to disrupt a June 27 constitutional referendum and new elections due in October, an accusation that was flatly denied by Bakiyev, who currently lives in exile.
Earlier on Sunday, Russian security officials said a battalion of paratroopers have been deployed in the turmoil-hit country, home to US and Russian military facilities in the Central Asian region.
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