A powerful earthquake struck Central Asia's densely populated Ferghana valley on Wednesday, shaking houses and sending residents of several Uzbek and Kyrgyz cities onto the streets in panic, Reuters reported.
There were no immediate reports of (...)
A powerful earthquake struck Central Asia's densely populated Ferghana valley on Wednesday, shaking houses and sending residents of several Uzbek and Kyrgyz cities onto the streets in panic, Reuters reported.
There were no immediate reports of (...)
Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva said on Friday that unnamed forces were seeking a pretext to repeat the violence that killed hundreds of people in the country's ethnically divided south a year ago, according to Reuters.
Ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks (...)
A delegation of U.N. and U.S. officials is visiting southern Kyrgyzstan to assess the needs of some 375,000 people driven from their homes by ethnic violence.
A group led by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz and U.N. High Commissioner (...)
Kyrgyzstan held an historic referendum on Sunday to create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy, with turn-out appearing high despite months of political turmoil and a wave of ethnic violence.
At least 283 people were killed this month - (...)
Kyrgyzstan held an historic referendum on Sunday to create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy, with turn-out appearing high.
Interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva arrived in a motorcade amid high security in the southern city of Osh. (...)
Kyrgyz soldiers voted on Friday in a referendum to create the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia, two weeks after ethnic clashes killed more than 250 people and forced hundreds of thousands to flee, according to Reuters.
Nearly 2,000 (...)
Kyrgyzstan's central government pledged to help ethnic Uzbeks vote in a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, encouraging participation by a minority group that has supported the interim administration, AP reported.
The impoverished former (...)
Kyrgyzstan's interim president said Friday that the death toll from the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south could be near 2,000, as she made her first visit to a riot-hit city since the unrest broke out.
Kyrgyz Health Ministry (...)
Kyrgyzstan's interim president on Friday made her first visit to the riot-hit southern town of Osh, vowing to restore the battered city and work for the return of hundreds of thousands of Uzbek refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence, according to (...)
Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced today, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food (...)
A tense calm was felt in the streets of Osh Tuesday as Kyrgyzstan's interim government sent more security forces to the area to quell violent ethnic clashes.
But even though Tuesday had been one of the calmest days since fighting began, the Central (...)
Thousands of Uzbeks fleeing southern Kyrgyzstan amassed at the border Monday, as the deadliest ethnic violence in decades left entire city blocks burned to the ground and scores of people dead.
The official death toll from the clashes that began (...)
Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages, slaughtered their residents and stormed police stations seeking to loot more weapons Sunday as ethnic rioting engulfed new areas in southern Kyrgyzstan.
The interim government in the impoverished Central Asian (...)
Police and soldiers struggled Saturday to stop ethnic clashes in this Central Asian country that have killed more than 50 people, as gangs of armed young Kyrgyz men marched on Uzbek neighborhoods and fires raged throughout the city.
The official (...)
At least 23 people were killed on Friday when ethnic conflict flared in Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city Osh, the worst outbreak of violence in the Central Asian state since the president was overthrown in April, according to Reuters.
The interim (...)
Private homes and tea-houses were ablaze in a densely populated ethnic Uzbek neighbourhood in southern Kyrgyzstan's city of Osh on Friday, and frequent gunfire was heard, a Reuters eyewitness said.
"The Uzbek-populated neighbourhood, Cheryomushki, (...)
About 2,000 opposition activists
stormed three government buildings in the southern Kyrgyz
city of Osh on Monday, forcing about 100 troops to flee in
the latest in a wave of protests to demand President Askar
Akayev's resignation.
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