Fresh fires burn in Kyrgyzstan as ethnic Uzbeks flee
Monday, 14 June 2010
Sporadic nadiren fighting has continued in south Kyrgyzstan in the country's worst ethnic violence in years, say reports.
At least hiç olmazsa 117 people have been killed in three days of fighting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks.
The city of Osh was relatively nispeten quiet on Monday, said correspondents muhabir, but fresh fires were reported in Jalalabad. Tens of thousands of Uzbeks have fled kaçmak to Uzbekistan. Some have accused security forces of failing to stop - or joining in - the attacks.
The exact tam cause of the latest clashes çatışma is unclear, but it comes two months after President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted yerinden etmek in a violent uprising isyan..
Mr Bakiyev still has supporters destekçi in the south of the country and there have been concerns that his overthrow hükümeti devirme might exacerbate şiddetlendirmek historical tension gerginlik between the ethnic groups. Mr Bakiyev has denied any involvement ilgi in the latest violence.
The south of Kyrgyzstan, an ex-Soviet Central Asian state of 5.5 million people, is home to an ethnic Uzbek minority azınlık of almost one million. The clashes are the worst ethnic violence to hit southern Kyrgyzstan since 1990, when several hundred people were killed. Kyrgyzstan was then part of the Soviet Union, which sent in troops tabur to quell bastırmak the unrest huzursuzluk.
Mass burials
Izzat Ibragimov, the deputy head of emergency services in Uzbekistan, told the AFP news agency 60,000 adult refugees had been officially counted in the country's Andijan region. Thousands more children were with them, he said.
Some of the refugees accused the military of siding with tarafını tutmak armed gangs çete of ethnic Kyrgyz.
There were reports of bodies lying in the streets and in smouldering için için yanan buildings, and of mass toplu burials being carried out. Some Uzbek men were guarding their homes from potential attacks.
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