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well that your signifies a product of all the people living in kyrgyzstan. for the first two decades biggest towns flash has served as a banner of ocracy. every leader every government that told this country promise freedom and a better life. but so far they could just be fully tested only one right the right to kill. it's not the residents of washington didn't see the writing on the wall tensions between caregivers and those back communities have been simmering for decades when joseph stalin held draw of the region's administrative borders patches of his back
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land ended up cutting through curtis territory the people see nobody took it seriously as if the borders were appointed by reference to the terrain nobody could ever even think that these borders would become the frontiers between the independent states it was just dumb to put a stumbling block into the interethnic relations just to let moscow be the main result of the problem. for decades the two communities league side by side attending the weddings of their children and going to the same mosques. both the current games and those bags a sunni muslims yet in this city religious unity it couldn't outweigh the how its brutality. in fact it was right before friday prayers in a spiritual time for a muslim. the slaughter began.
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the viciousness of clashes was beyond description but even more shocking was the reaction of the courtesan storage for three days the caretaker government of kyrgyzstan was taking care of everything bought its own subjects being burnt alive . this. speaks to this crisis was. so. brutal. the. night the law enforcement know they army intervened when the clashes began to spread hours later i doubt weaponry and equipment in the hands of cricket gangs. was on the scene when you talk of the
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armed forces were interest being on hopefully the people who were actually cure and also princeling men in uniforms were shooting a strong bulls with gusto in people's houses you know one of the citizens would run they would shoot them. with what is going to. wasn't the first time that the critics out there were just too dido washing down on people being killed. two months prior to the massacre of almost ninety people lost their lives in front of the government's offices putting enough to defeat is. wasn't even thirty one he was killed during the april uprising in bishkek an electrician he worked long hours to support his family. his uncle sas he joined the rally because he had had enough even though opposition
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parties paid a small fee and provided to preach and spread station for the protesters. not old but people have had enough it's a family. we heard that maksim by kiev said i have a shepherd that says father and five million sheep maginot. it was those deaths ultimately allowed the interim government to seize power when the victims of the bishkek massacre were laid to rest the new authorities thought to present them as national heroes to sacrifice their lives for the future of back country. loose people who shed their blood for they had the noose of curious nation and for the fast the rooty. before the bishkek riots could be stun had never been buried so many people at once and there at the cemetery the leaders pledged it wouldn't happen again. but just two months later the country
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south was drowning in. s.o.s. save our souls this plea was seen on every house on every street in those back neighborhoods of southern kyrgyzstan a cry for mercy. more violence and that's why we didn't have anything to protect ourselves with so we had to write everywhere but it didn't help at all places roos books live all had a swiss. to fight us. neighbors for centuries in just a matter of days the congress and those backs turned into each others worse than a miss they didn't just kill they did it in the ad least of waste. their
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trousers were taken off one of them had a stick and he's mad. yes they're not human they're animals. muslims believe those killed during friday prayers will go straight to heaven but it offers little solace to the family. nandan year old bob or mom was returning from a mosque on a creek is mob surrounded him. a russian citizen he came to kyrgyzstan to see his relatives. they still haven't found enough courage to tell his mother what happened . i mean you need god then you have the we never separated keurig is an backs we're all muslims. in freight don't they have parents mothers. do they want. men in his village blocked all roads in and out of the settlement trucks from a nearby oil refinery were used for barricades there finery itself was booby
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trapped to ward off looters. only one stronghold remained standing. in the city were torched women were killed. we won't give up our positions. yet for all their self-defense rhetoric these years back religare is are also guilty of murder on the second day of riots they killed the chief of the local police precinct and his colleagues all of whom were at. the family of one of the victims is still looking for his had to be buried together with his decapitated body. five men arrived in the car my head was smashed. during the first day the provisional government didn't react with doing nothing and that's why
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the violence was growing. fishel has climbed over three hundred many believe that the real figure may be several times as much according to local customs backs try to bury their loved ones on the day of their death bypassing official registration but one day authorities began to unidentified bodies to ascertain the death toll this created. the hatred between communities. my nephews appeared at the cemetery and now every grade was being dug up. on new day the cantrell stone piece. for those unfamiliar with central asia differentiating between the caregivers and those backs is tricky the most vivid visual distinction is in may of had the gear felt allen gated hoods for the car gates and flat skullcaps for those backs yet in
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this conflict the form of had gear or the shape of the ice was reason enough for execution. during the first day of clashes somebody started writing the ethnicity of us residents right on their doors to those barracks it meant black marks. but i walk over there are people who are walking around with paint marking their faces writers then use these marxist targets now the caribbees has a stamp touched that was because these are destroyed. it took this man more than a decade to build his house only to see torched overnight. cover that's really critical here and there were up to twenty people aged from fifteen to thirty five they said only carriages people should be leaving kyrgyzstan. his family now lives
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in the stables right across from the cattle. slipping on manure and hate his daughter in law is dreading the worst is yet to come a six month pregnancy didn't stop the mob from beating her. mania him dugald i was fine i stripped there were no clothes on me i'm pregnant but i was beaten up four men have taken me by the hand and threw me on the car. i fell there in my stomach my child sometimes is moving sometimes. his silent. loss. it wasn't always this way born and raised but annoyed and chilled paan have known each other since the call. on his back and occurred the two remember their
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home cd as an example of interest nicola runs with a look this is you and this is me years have passed that haircuts and husbands have changed but they have always been there for each other. or like sisters no where even closer in this land there is a new sheen of a friend so good she can take your sins upon herself to stand before. that's how close we are. to their friendship has already been tested back in the clashes once before twenty years ago or so its brightest after the riots over distribution of land almost call strolled poncho. he's the leader. in the boss and we saw a crowd of ahead of us that. one didn't
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see it. with long dress all the others in the boss were killed. in the full. horror of flying experience didn't make her scared of her hometown something she bitterly regret it afterwards this summer that you from some their children to all holidays of the time of our visit still couldn't figure out how to get them back. and they had the reasons to be fearful of. these girls. was the same age as their daughters was fooling with your mother to do . when the bullets. in. watch.
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the clashes in southern kyrgyzstan were well organized many of the mobsters need to presidents of wash they had access to weaponry and they didn't just indiscriminately destroy everything in that way in fact the marauders were very selective in their targets. for all its will until this bloodbath had all the trappings of an attempted coup to top one of the so-called color revolutions still frequent in former soviet states that added yet another blot stain to the red flag. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.
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from my father. this is that man is showing what's left of the house he's family owned for three generations. days after the fire the ruins are still smoldering just like his anger at his neighbors. i'm afraid to take off my jacket because i've got nothing. on what it's like he's house at the very end of on his back and clave so some of the most brutal fighting he says snipers hiding in a nearby apartment block killed several of his neighbors. on the roof. is a man who fought on the other side of the improvised barricade has a strikingly similar calm and about the snipers on the roof and the stones and says he's only weapons and the viciousness of his adversaries. then you shouldn't trust
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. their animals it was. just this is. is thicker gives people who must have the power here. some of the most serious had firearms the most common weapons in this conflict were sticks and knives this may have helped curb the death toll but it also contributed to the overall savagery of the riots allowed to kill with bare hands people proved very creative in finding new forms of torture and mutilation. many of the male victims were sodomized the genitals horribly mutilated. women had a better chance of survival that our deal of any will to leave. no she's in a great condition she couldn't and doesn't want to speak the seventeen year old
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girl was gang raped in front of her father. in a culture where chastity before marriage is a must she's unlikely to ever marry or have children. they hide everything they chorus this is our mentality but i know that more than ten women from one in the same district were raped. among them a pregnant women as well as underage girls about twelve sixteen years old it was not. left face to face with an prosecution to true for more than a week the people of southern kyrgyzstan the waiting for their leaders to step in but the authorities both on the regional and the state level just forced the carnage from the sidelines. national channels gave little airtime to the events of the south showing these commercial and stab. even if.
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you were to run to. when it became clear that they were just run they able to control the situation those trapped in the inferno appeal to the world. that they would do like this. i live couple. we don't leave here the jets just survive here like. when i grew up i will be killing everybody. but they help never came and started two weeks later the interim leadership for the
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homeless and the grieving a choice a parliamentary for a presidential republic. it was never secret that the main goal of the june referendum was to legitimize the self appointed interim leadership rather than carry out political reform impotent during the clashes it proved cunning enough to turn the tragedy into its main electoral. killed by government forces during. his now remember that his village as a national hero. helped bring about freedom and democracy. this referendum. of. people country during the revolution but voting. is relative them on the most loyal supporters of the interim government but the
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week prior to the referendum they devoted the time complaining for the new constitution. and i think this referendum will change previously the constitution only works for one family we think this new constitution works for the people. while the promises of democracy and a better life have fallen to many followers in the capital bishkek in the south of the country that met with anger. death which is a pain these care gives women seven dollars per day to help clean the ravaged streets but it was not enough to carry that electoral favor if it and you know that we don't need this referendum we don't need it oh there's blood here people have died why should we have this referendum and how will it help us. if. the mood is the one most hopeless in those back neighborhoods this family just learned that their son was killed soon after the interim government reported that they have got the situation in the city under control. i wouldn't advise anyone to
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vote if the government can't protect us why do we need to a government we should be protecting us and instead they came here with marauders with murderers they killed our sons robbed our families. a lie can be cured communities these people haven't seen the single election official yet many still went to the polls hoping the authorities won't fail them again. so. we have nothing to know. everything. from the thirty's help us to rebuild. we will support them. absent in d.c. during the bloodshed the interim president made
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a very public visit. to cast a ballot that will keep her in power until the end of two thousand and eleven. people today are voting for stability in kyrgyzstan for a legitimate power a lot has been said about the country being divided that it is on the brink of disaster but today and the referendum people want to prove that the country is united. after weeks of riots and homelessness the referendum gave some of the. first chance to go back to their neighborhoods to many the scenes were too much to bear. just look at everything is destroyed. by the end of the day polling stations in those back and claves have seen so many hard braking encounters that even some election officials started questioning the
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need for vote a toll corruption committee official or as a member of commission i'm here but i think there is no place for a friend in now they should have thought about people first who were left in the streets without homan suit there is even a small humanitarian aid. in the referendum on out of the way many here hope that the authorities will finally get dollars to what really matters the caregivers in those backs still live on different sides of the barricades paying for cruelty with mercy and vice versa. this woman is current is the man as is back they believed on the same street for years so when the mob came to that area because this family back then not to harm those back a neighbor the number of views backs should go away they took everything for months and i have nothing against my neighbor he's a good person but the others must leave game.
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when those bad gangs retaliated no please stop down from killing they had a good. group. of. dealing with grief and rage of those backs the family to care of their old neighbor when they were handing him over to his back relatives no one could hold back the tears. moments later the caregivers in those back started blaming each other for starting the riots. may have meant like neighbors they parted like enemies. while the authorities have long proclaimed the return of peace reconciliation is no way inside. both communities are stocking up on guns both sending their children
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forest fires ripped through central russia killing and leaving thousands more homeless later for more. also the floating fear emergency crews rush in a desperate search to retrieve thousands of barrels of highly poisonous chemicals from the chinese river which could reach russia in just two weeks. and germany's fear more criminals could soon be living in their communities and up to the european court of human rights bans the continued detention of some convicts viewed as dangerous. event.
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live from our studios here in central moscow this is twenty four hours a day forest fires have killed at least twenty five people and left thousands homeless in central russia as a heat wave grips much of the country the situation has escalated following weeks of record breaking temperatures. reports now from a village ravaged by five that's only forty kilometers from moscow. just take a look at the damage around me here these charge remains show what can happen when record heat meets drought like conditions and this was somebody is home and look nothing here is as it once was everything has been demolished now this family made it out ok but they're heartbroken you know they worked hard to accumulate things to keep the family comfortable and together and now look at it it's all demolished and that's been the story throughout central russia where forest fires have ripped through the central area killing twenty five people and leaving two thousand homeless so now people are trying to feed.
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