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OSH, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Mobs of rioters slaughtered Uzbeks and burned their homes and businesses in Kyrgyzstan's worst ethnic violence in decades, sending more than 75,000 members of the ethnic m ...
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Ethnic riots wracked southern Kyrgyzstan on Saturday, forcing thousands of Uzbeks to flee as their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men. The interim government ...
PHOTO GALLERY OSH, Kyrgyzstan – About 100,000 minority Uzbeks fleeing mobs of Kyrgyz massed at the border Monday, an Uzbek leader said, as the deadliest ethnic violence to hit this Central As… ...
For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared.
OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- Everything about Nasiba looks vulnerable, from her soft voice to her small hands folded unmoving in her lap. But that changes when the 34-year-old Uzbek -- who asked that her ...
Two women, one Kyrgyz, one Uzbek, live side by side in the Osh neighborhood that saw some of the worst violence during Kyrgyzstan's June 2010 ethnic clashes. Both suffered in the violence, but one ...
Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have removed a 75-foot (23-meter) statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest in Central Asia. Skip to content Menu Today's paper.
Kyrgyzstan's weak military attempted Wednesday to regain control of the city of Osh, a major transit point for Afghan heroin and the epicenter of ethnic violence that has driven much of the Uzbek ...
The violence that broke out in southern Kyrgyzstan in the middle of June fragmented Osh, once a cosmopolitan city, into a network of barricaded ghettos. Some in Osh say they were caught completely by ...
In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, authorities have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest of its kind in Central Asia. Erected in 1975, ...