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but so far the congress people have fully tested only one right the right to kill. it's not that the residents of washington didn't see the writing on the wall tensions between caregivers and those better communities have been simmering for decades when joseph stalin helped draw of the region's administrative borders patches of his back land and that of cutting through curtis territory. nobody took it seriously 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 street just to let moscow be the main result of the problem. for
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decades the two communities league side by side attending the weddings of their children and going to the same mosques. both the convince 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. while the viciousness of clashes was beyond description to be even more shocking was the reaction of the. first three days the caretaker government of kyrgyzstan was taking care of everything bob its own subjects being burnt alive.
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this. speech this crazy. 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 in the hands of cricket gangs. was on the scene when you talk about the armed forces were anxious being on hopefully in the four to actually carry an aspirin saying men in uniforms were shooting of throwing bottles with gasoline in people's houses you know one of the citizens would run out there was shoot them. wasn't the first time that the courteous authorities to dido washing down and people being killed. two months prior to the off massacre almost ninety people lost
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their lives on the government's offices putting it down to defeat. 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 to preach and spread station for the protestors. not all but people have had enough it's a family clan marxian but we heard that maksim by key of said i have a shepherd that says father and five million sheep magine that. it was those deaths ultimately allowed to enter. and to seize power when the
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victims of the bishkek 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. those people who shed their blood for they have the noose of curious 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 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
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a cry for mercy that led to even more violence and that's where we didn't have anything to protect ourselves with so we had to write everywhere but it didn't help at all places ruse books live all had a suicide. didn't 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 trousers were taken off each one of them has a stick in his backside they're not human they're animals. muslims believe those killed during friday prayers will go straight to haven't but it offers little solace to the family. to your old bob or mohammad a was returning from a mosque when a courageous mob surrounded him. a russian citizen he came to kyrgyzstan to see his
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relatives. they still haven't found enough courage to tell his mother what happened i mean you need god then you have we never separated keurig isn't backs we're all muslims. don't be afraid 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. 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 in the second day of riots they killed the
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chief of a 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. my brother is in negotiations five men arrived in a 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. authorities began to examine unidentified bodies to ascertain the death toll
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this created yet another spark of the hatred between the already seething communities over to my nephews appeared at the cemetery. now every grave was being dug up. the cantrell stone piece. for those unfamiliar with central asia differentiating between the caregivers in those bags 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 had gear or the shape of the ice was reason enough for execution. during the first day of clashes somebody started watching the ethnicity of residence right on the doors of those bags it meant black marks.
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mother walked out of there were people who were walking running with paint marking their faces writers then used these marxist targets now the caribbees has a stamp touched. his or destroyed. it took this man more than a decade to build his house only to see torched overnight. 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 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 five i stripped there were no clothes on me i'm pregnant but i was beaten up. four
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men have taken me by the hand and threw me on the car. i fell there on 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 is back in the car get the to remember their home cd as an example of interest next toller 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 and you are 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
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close we are. you know what their friendship has already been tested back in the 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. with a long dress all the others in the boss who were killed. in the. horrifying experience didn't make her scared of her hometown something she bitterly regret it afterwards this summer the two brands send their children to austria holidays at the time of our visit. still couldn't figure out
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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. in. the clashes in southern kyrgyzstan were well organized many of the mobsters weren't made to president vosh 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 it is bloodbath had all the trappings of an attempted coup to top one of the so-called color revolutions
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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on. the rats sun is setting on. bringing the bloodiest week in the city's millennial long history so close. but it's imposing moment ins and valleys do you see it's part of poets and painters. now in streets provide a matter for the shattered lives of its residents.
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heritage business from my father. this is batman is showing what's left of the house he's family owned with three generations. days after the fire in 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 his back and clave so some of the most brutal 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. of all the snipers on the roof and the stones and says he's
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only weapons and the viciousness of his adversaries. you shouldn't trust. their animals if you're. just this is to get stung is thicker gives people who must have the power here. some of the most serious have 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 are deal of any will to leave. no
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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 is not. left face to face with an prosit done to truth listeners 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 and
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to self showing these commercial in stab. even if. i still knew where to run to. when it became clear that they could use that they were just run they able to control the situation those trapped in the inferno appeal to the world. police said that they would do like peace with us. fish them until. i left couple of years that we don't leave here the jets just survive here like animals when i grew up killing everybody. but they held never came and stabbed two weeks later the interim leadership offered the
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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 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 bishkek riots slum model the yard of his now remember that his village as a national hero. shall bring about freedom and democracy. for this referendum. people no country during the revolution but. what you. some of. his relatives among the most loyal supporters of the
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interim government with a week prior to the referendum they devoted their time complaining for the new constitution. i think this referendum changed. 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 found many followers in the capital bishkek in the south of the country that met with anger. death which is a pain these gives women seven dollars per day to help clean the ravaged streets but it was not enough to carry that electoral favor if you didn't 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 more hopeless in those back neighborhoods this family just
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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 should government be 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. that. we have nothing to know. everything. is the home of the third to help us to rebuild. we will support them.
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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 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. 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
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hard braking encounters that even some election officials started questioning the need for votes a tall correction committee official or as a member of commission here but i think there is no place for a friend 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 is as bad they believed on the same street for years so when the mob came to that area because this family backed them not to harm those back neighbor i'm not going to be used backs should go away they took everything for months and i have nothing against my neighbor he's
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a good person but the others must leave game. when those bad gangs retaliated no please stop down from killing they had a good. group. of. dealing 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. 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 beef reconciliation is no
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twenty eight people have been killed and thousands left homeless. breaking heat wave. toxic fishing trying to struggle to retrieve thousands of barrels of dangerous chemical waste from a river that supplies fresh water to the southeast in russia. defense authorities blocking protesters from entering estonia next nazi soldiers commemorating the country. well at least twenty eight people have been killed in forest fires that continue to ravage central russia sweltering since the middle of june the country is in the grip of its most severe heatwave for one hundred thirty years the russian
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emergencies minister says the situation is now under control but firefighters are still battling to contain the blazes in the last two days thousands have had to watch their homes burned to the ground and many others have been evacuated our correspondent. and that is certainly one of the worst hit areas hi sara so can you tell us how many fires are in the area right now and what are officials doing to contain it must be an uphill battle given this heat. well in for a mistake made managing to get the situation under control after the last day he. amount of destruction caused by these by the same photo by the heat waves the russian state over the past couple of weeks now we know that around a hundred thousand head to a still burning across central russia association a month will be done and we stink but how much is the substance of the fire services have really struggled with this to put them out now the people that we've spoken to them.
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