bloodyminded Posted June 17, 2010 Report Posted June 17, 2010 (edited) It's an extremely dangerous situation. About 100,000 minority Uzbeks fleeing Kyrgyz mobs in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan massed at the border with Uzbekistan Monday in the deadliest ethnic violence to hit this Central Asian nation in 20 years.An Uzbek community leader, Jallahitdin Jalilatdinov, said the Uzbeks were fleeing mobs made up of people from Kyrgyzstan's majority ethnic group, the Kyrgyz, who were rioting in Osh, five kilometres from the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. Fires raged in the city for a fourth day on Monday. The official count was 124 dead and nearly 1,500 injured since the violence began last week, but Jalilatdinov, who heads the Uzbek National Centre, said at least 200 Uzbeks had already been buried. The Red Cross said its delegates saw about 100 bodies being buried in just one cemetery. Uzbeks make up 15 per cent of Kyrgyzstan's five million people, but in the south their numbers rival those of the ethnic Kyrgyz. The United States, Russia and the United Nations worked on airlifts of humanitarian aid while neighbouring Uzbekistan hastily set up camps to handle the flood of hungry, frightened refugees. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/14/kyrgyzstan-clash-uzbek.html Edited June 17, 2010 by bloodyminded Quote As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. --Josh Billings
Remiel Posted June 17, 2010 Report Posted June 17, 2010 It's an extremely dangerous situation. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/14/kyrgyzstan-clash-uzbek.html Just what we needed, right where we needed it... At least Tajikistan is in between there and Afghanistan. Assuming, you know, nothing ends up happening there too. Quote
GostHacked Posted June 17, 2010 Report Posted June 17, 2010 I recall watching some documentary in the last couple weeks about the peacefull protests there. Something broke and all hell was released, but I think this was a couple years ago. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article526600.ece It was in 2005, still trying to find the video that I watched. There was one scene where the people doing the doc drove into the city to see protesters line the sidewalk for miles on the opposite side of the road to the government building. The most interesting thing is that the protesters just stood/sat there. There was little to no noise, they were silent. It was very eerie!! Quote
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