More than 100 Uzbeks slaughtered as Kyrgyz mobs set the city of Osh on fire

[cali]

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 9:09 AM on 14th June 2010

More than 75,000 refugees have been forced to flee Kyrgyzstan as mobs burned villages and killed at least 117 Uzbeks in the worst ethnic rioting in the Central Asian nation in 20 years.

Most of the refugees fleeing across the border into Uzbekistan were elderly people, women and children, and many had gunshot wounds, said the Uzbek Emergencies Ministry.

Sporadic gunfire continued overnight and fresh fires started by rioters destroyed most of Osh, the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, and food was scarce after widespread looting.
Attack: Thousands of terrified refugees flee towards the Uzbekistan border as Kyrgz mobs kill scores of ethnic Uzbeks

The official death toll reached 117 with 1,500 hurt, the Health Ministry of the beleaguered former Soviet country, which hosts U.S. and Russian military bases, announced today that 1,500 people have been hurt in the attacks - and the death toll is expected to rise.

Accounts from international aid agencies and other witnesses suggest the real figures could be multiples higher: the International Committee of the Red Cross has said its delegates witnessed about 100 bodies being buried in just one cemetery.
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[aquart]

1. Will there be a Kyrgyz/Uzbek forum?

[FarrenH]

2. Perhaps after there's been 40-odd years of ethnic cleansing

and Apartheid, and the USA has sent billions of dollars of aid to successive governments in the country?

[howard112211]

3. And when scores of people show up on this board defending these killings

and claiming that anyone who thinks those killings were not legitimate hates Jews. And when the US media present a 100% biased view of the situation day in and day out, and when anyone who calls out this bias gets accused of believing in "The Elders of Zion".

Yes, then we might need an additional forum for this.

[cali]

8. thanks for setting the shitty tone

I note that you made the same idiotic comment in another thread on this topic.

[cali]

4. oh for fuck's sake

this has zip all to do with I/P.

[howard112211]

5. These days everything does apparently.

I think the problem is we all do not know much about the power structures of the former Soviet Union.

Time to educate myself...

I plead guilty.

[FarrenH]

6. Sorry Cali,

opened this thread because I'm geniunely interested in the topic. Just couldn't resist taking aquart's bait.

[howard112211]

7. +1

[cali]

9. not your fault

it was the first poster that derailed this thread.