as a banner of democracy. every leader every government that ruled this country promised freedom and a better life. but so far they could be fully tested only one right the right to kill. it's not done the residents of wash didn't see the writing on the wall tensions between caregivers and those bad communities have been simmering for decades when joseph stalin held draw of the region's administrative borders patches of his back land and up cutting through kircus 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 leapt side by side attending the weddings of their children i'm going to the same mosques. both the current guinness and those bags a sunni muslims yet in this city religious unity it 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. well the viciousness of clashes was beyond description but to be even more shocking was the reaction of. the caretaker government of. taking

care of everything bob its own subjects' being burnt alive. this. speed of this crisis was. so. brutal. no i the law enforcement know they army intervened when the clashes began to spread hours later i doubt weaponry and equipment are in the hands of the biggest gangs. what is on the street when you talk about the armed forces were interest being on hopefully in the four to actually cure and also cleansing men in uniforms or shooting of strong bottles with gasoline in people's houses you know one of the citizens would run out there would shoot them. with when is going to. wasn't the

first time that the courteous authorities to dido washing down and people being killed. two months prior to the massacre almost ninety people lost their lives in front of the government offices putting in now defeated. 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 says he joined the rally because he had had enough even though opposition parties paid a small fee and provided for each and split station for the protesters. not old people have had enough it's a family clan marxian but we heard that maksim by key have said i have a shepherd that says father and five min. in sheep magine 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 who sacrificed 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 fair thirty. before the bishkek rides previous john had never been buried so many people at once and they're at the cemetery the leaders pledged it wouldn't happen again. but just two months later the country 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. 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 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 other's worse than a miss they didn't just kill they did it in the ad least of waste stuff their trousers were taken off one of them had a stick in his backside they're not humans they're animals. muslims believe those killed during friday prayers will go straight to haven't it all. there is little solace to the family. in your old bob or mom was returning

from a mosque on a creek is a 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 x. we're all muslims. grounded 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 trapped to ward off looters. only one stronghold remained standing all of the buildings 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

really jurors 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. the family of one of the victims is still looking for his had to be buried together if he's decapitated body. to negotiations 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 the violence was growing. fishel 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 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 this part of the hatred between the already seeding communities. my nephews appeared at the cemetery and now every grave was being dug up. on new day the cantrell strong piece. for those unfamiliar with central asia differentiating between the caregivers and those backs is tricky the most vivid visual distinction is a male had the gear felt alone 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 enough for execution.

during the first day of clashes somebody started watching the ethnicity of the us residents ride on their doors to those backs it meant black marks. when i walk over there are people who are walking or running with paint marking their faces writers then use these marxist targets now the caribbees has a stamp touched well that was because these are destroyed. it took this man more than a decade to build his house only to see torched of the night. progress for the crowed if 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 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 getting her. mania in this dugald i

was four 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 annoyed and chilled pon have known each other since elementary school. and back and occurred the two remember their homes as an example of interaction extolled the 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 could she continue your sins upon herself to stand before. that's how close we are. to their friendship has already been tested by acne clashes once before twenty years ago or so it's brightest after the riots over distribution of land it's almost called strolled poncho like. he's doing anything. else in the boss and we saw a crowd of ahead of us that. one didn't see it and with a long dress all the others in the boss were killed. in the. buying experience didn't make her scared of her hometown something she bitterly regret it afterwards this summer the two fronts send their

children to austria holidays at 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 daughter's she was fleeing with your mother to do's back border when the bullets. in. watch. 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 and our 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 d'etat one of the so-called color revolutions frequent in former soviet states that added yet another blot stain to the red flag .

for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. the wrath sun is setting on. bringing the bloodiest weaken the city's millennial long history to a close. but it's imposing moment ins and valleys used to inspire poets and painters. now it's disfigures streets provide a matter for for the shattered lives of its residents.

the heritage from my father. this is batman is showing what's left of the house he's family owned for three generations. days after the fire and the ruins are still smoldering just like his anger at his career 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. downstairs and on the roof. occurred businessman who fought on the other side of this improvised barricade has a strikingly similar call and 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 animal. is thicker gives people who must have the power here. have the most serious have firearms the most common weapons in this conflict are 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 are deal. and he will to leave. no she's in a grave condition she couldn't and doesn't want to speak the seventeen year old

girl was gang raped in front of her father. chastity before marriage is a must she's unlikely to ever marry or have children. when they hide everything the 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 she's not. left face to face with unprecedented truth listeners for more than a week the people of southern kyrgyzstan the wait for their leaders to step in the deal story cheese goes 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 showing these commercial and stab. even if.

i still knew where to run to. when it became clear that the stuff they were just round the able to control the situation those trapped in the inferno appeal to the world. that they would do like this with us imagine i lived a sham and. i live couple kidneys that we don't leave here the jets to survive here like animals when i grew up i will be killing everybody. but they help never came and stabbed two weeks later the interim leadership all for the 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 cornerstone. killed by government forces during the riots. of his now remember that his village as a national hero. shall bring about freedom and democracy. for this referendum. people country during the revolution but voting. is relative them on the most loyal supporters of the interim government with a 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 and the capital bishkek in the south of the country that met with anger. death which is a pain be scared 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 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. who does have been 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

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 make your 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. i guess that. certainly will go. but we have nothing to know. everything. from is the thirty's help us to rebuild. we will support them. absent in d.c. during the launch of 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. the 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 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 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 voter toll action committee official or as a member of commission 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 and suit there is even a small humanitarian aid. in the referendum allt of the way many here hold the authorities will finally get down 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 that will. leave 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 the good 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 a game. when those bad gangs retaliated

no please stop them 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. months later they could visit those back started blaming each other for starting the riots. may have mad like neighbors and they parted like enemies. well death or riches have proclaimed the return of reconciliation. both communities are. sending their children the way the right to kill has

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struggle. dangerous chemical. while twenty eight people have been killed by the fierce forest fires raging across central russia as the weeks long heat wave refuses to loosen its grip about three

thousand people have washed their homes a similar number have been evacuated. struggling to prevent the flames from spreading. we've come here just about fifteen minutes outside the city center of for an issue which has been badly hit by the by is she in the village of must love and most of the homes here have been destroyed by the fires they seen in the past few days the smoke really being very very thick and yet you can smell it even in the city center and this is what has left a huge number of people saying listen we've been speaking to the locals here and they were saying that all happened very quickly it was about fifteen minutes we'll say that the wind whipped up this fire and it was jumping from house to house they were describing it like a fire still move a really found that very hard to tackle. refugee said to sort of you.