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well i think your signifies product of all the people living in kyrgyzstan. but if those two decades could just dance flag has served as a banner of christie. 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 helped draw up the region's administrative borders patches of his back land ended up cutting through congress territory with the help of those who
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nobody took it seriously if the voters 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 lead side by side attending the weddings of their children and going to the same mosques. both the conditions and those bags a sunni muslims yet in this city religious unit couldn't outweigh the hellish brutality. in fact it was right before friday prayers in a spiritual time for a muslim that the slaughter began.
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well the viciousness of clashes was beyond description but even more shocking was the reaction of the curtis authorities for three days the caretaker government of kyrgyzstan was taking care of everything bob its own subjects being burnt alive. this. speak to this crisis was. so. brutal. i. know why the law enforcement nor the army intervened when the clashes began to spread hours later i doubt weaponry and equipment in the hands of cricket gangs. was on the street when you talk about the armed forces were interest being on hopefully in the fall to actually cure and also
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cleansing minimum uniforms were shooting a strong bulls with gusto in people's houses you know one of the citizens would run there will shoot them. with what is going to. wasn't the first time that the curtis authorities to 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 offices putting in now defeated. wasn't even thirty when he was killed during the april uprising in bishkek an electrician he worked long hours to support his family. his uncle says he joined the rally because he had had enough even though opposition parties paid a small fee and provided to preach and spread station for the protesters. not old
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but people have had enough it's a family. we heard that maksim by he of said i have a shepherd that's his father and five million sheep can you imagine that. it was those deaths ultimately allowed the interim government to seize power when the victims of the massacre were laid to rest the new authority still 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 careless nation and for the fast or ity. before the bishkek rides 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 was drowning in.
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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 that led to even more violence. we didn't have anything to protect ourselves with so we had to write everywhere but it didn't help at all places who live all had a suicide. to fight us. neighbors for centuries in just a matter of days the congress and those backs turned into each other's worse than a miss they didn't just kill they did it and they add least of waste. their trousers were taken off one of them had a stick. he's backside they're not human they're animals.
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muslims believe those killed during friday prayers will go straight to haven't but it offers little solace to the family. in the year old bob or mohammad a was returning from a mosque when 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 been we never separated keurig is an x. we're all muslims. freight don't they have parents. do they want. men in his village blocked all the roads in and out of the settlement trucks from a nearby oil refinery were used for barricades there finery itself was booby trapped to ward off looters. only one stronghold remained standing all of the
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buildings in the city were torched women were killed and raped standards to breast fortress we won't give up our positions. yet for all their self-defense rhetoric these years back will injuries are also guilty of murder and the second day of riots they killed the chief of the local police precinct and his colleagues all of whom were ethnic. the family of one of the victims is still looking for his had to be buried together with his decapitated body. invited my brother in negotiations five men arrived in a calm my head was smashed we buried him. during the first day the provisional government didn't react with doing nothing and that's why the violence was growing.
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well the fischel death toll has climbed over three hundred many believe that the real figure may be several times as much according to local customs most of those bax try to bury their loved ones on the day of their death bypassing official registration but one day authorities began to examine unidentified bodies to ascertain the death toll this created yet another spark of the hatred between the already seething communities. my nephew spirit at the cemetery. now every grave was being dug up. for those unfamiliar with central asia differentiating between the caregivers in those bags is tricky the most vivid visual distinction is a male have a gear felt allen gated hoods for the car gates and flat skullcaps for those backs yet in this conflict the form of have gear or the shape of the ice was reason
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enough for execution. during the first day of clashes somebody started watching the ethnicity of residence right on the doors of those barracks it meant black marks. mother welcome there were people who were walking or running with paint marking their faces rioters then used these marks as targets to criticize a stand touched. his or destroy. it to get this man more than a decade to build his house only to see torched overnight. the curlicue here and there were up to twenty people aged from fifteen to thirty five they said only carriages people should leave. his family now lives in the. they are
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both 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 getting her. mania it. was for i stripped there were no clothes on me i'm pregnant but i was beaten up for man have taken me by the hand and threw me on the car. i fell there in my stomach my child sometimes is moving sometimes he's silent. it wasn't always this way born and raised but a nor and paan have known each other since the school. and is back in the car gets the two remember their home cd as an example of interest next toller runs with
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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 and yes mcgregor like sisters know where even closer in this line 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 it's almost called strolled poncho life. he still lived in. in the boss and we saw a crowd of ahead of us that. one didn't see it. with a long dress all the. in the boss who were killed till. now
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in the full. experience it didn't make her scared of her hometown something she bitterly regretted after wards this summer the two brands send 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. these girl was the same age as their daughters she was fleeing with your mother to do's back border when the bullets. and. the clashes in southern kyrgyzstan were well organized many of the mobsters were in one thousand presidents of osh they had access to weaponry and they didn't just
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indiscriminately destroy everything in that way in fact the marauders were very selective in their targets. for all it's all 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 rather biggest black. culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money madrid is a showcase for a lot of people are curious way to get out of a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling feat is this a trend or simply frequent whether one. in thailand or g.'s available in bangkok. super to look for hotels bangkok so i. told one call
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but it's imposing moment ins and fertile valleys do you see this part of poets and painters. now in streets provide a matter for the shattered lives of its residents. heritage from my father. this is batman is showing what's left of the house his family owned for three generations. days after the fire and 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 you understand what it's like he's house at the very end of on his back and clave so some of the most brutal
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fighting. he says snipers hiding in a nearby apartment block killed several of his neighbor's. roof. occurred who fought on the other side of this improvised barricade has a strikingly similar. about the snipers on the roof and the stones and says he's only weapons and the viciousness of his adversaries. you shouldn't trust. their animals it was. just this is a stunt 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
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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 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
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is not. left face to face with an prosecution to truth listeners for more than a week the people of southern kyrgyzstan the wait for their leaders to step in but the authorities both on the regional and the state level just watch the carnage from the sidelines. national channels give little airtime to the events of the south choying these commercial and stab me. even if. we 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.
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that they would do like peace with us. i live couple is a kid 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 offered the homeless and the grieving a choice of parliamentary for a presidential republic. it was never secret that the main goal of the june referendum was diligent to mei's 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
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a national hero. helped bring about freedom and democracy. this pressure in the. country during the revolution but voting. is relative them on the most loyal supporters of the interim government for the week prior to the referendum they devoted the time complaining for the new constitution. i think this referendum changed 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 followed the 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 ended you know
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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 what. the mood is even more hopeless in those back neighborhoods this family just learned that their son was killed soon after the interim government reported that it had got the situation in the city under control. i wouldn't advise anyone to 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. well i can be could guess 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.
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so. we have nothing to know. everything. from the thirty's help us to rebuilt. we will support them. absent in d.c. during the bloodshed the interim president made 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 is being said about the country being divided that it is on the brink of disaster but today at the referendum people want to prove that the country is united. after weeks of riots and homelessness the referendum gave some of the residents the first chance
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to go back to their neighborhoods to many the scenes were too much to bear. just look at everything is destroyed. but they 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 need for volta toll action 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 home ensuite there is even a small humanitarian aid. in the referendum allt of the way many here hold the authorities will finally get doll to what really matters the caregivers in those back still live on different sides of the barricades paying for cruelty with mercy
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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 believe that any game. when there was bad gangs retaliated no please stop them from killing they had a good. group. of. thing with grief and rage adieus backs the family to care of their old neighbor and they were handing him over to his back relatives no one could hold back the tears.
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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 reconciliation is no way. both communities are up on guns both sending their children the way the right to kill has been abolished.
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