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the kick is people have 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 craig is and his best communities have been simmering for decades when joseph stalin held draw of the region's administrative borders patches of it was that land ended up cutting through curtis territory the people see nobody took it seriously 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
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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 the most spiritual time for a muslim that the slaughter began. while the viciousness of clashes was beyond description but 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. speed of 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 are in the hands of cricket gangs. but as well this year when you talk about the armed forces were anxious being on hopefully in the four to actually cure and also cleansing men in uniforms were shooting a strong castle in people's houses you know one of the citizens would run out there would shoot them. with what is going to. wasn't the first time that they could use authorities to dido washing down and people being killed. two months prior to the massacre of almost ninety people lost their lives
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in front of the government offices putting in our defeatist. 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. people have had enough and it's a family marxian but we heard that maksim by key have said i have a shepherd that's his father and five million sheep magine that. it was those deaths ultimately allowed the interim government to seize power when the victims. of the bishkek massacre will lay to rest the new authorities still to
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present them as national heroes to sacrifice their lives for the future of back country all of those people who shed their blood for they have the noose of curious nation and for the fast the rooty. before the bishkek rides christiane had never 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 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 at last to even more violence and that's why we didn't have
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anything to protect ourselves with so we had to write s.o.s. everywhere but it didn't help at all places where it was big to 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 mess they didn't just kill they did it in the ad least of waste stuff their trousers were taken off each one of them has 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 but it offers little solace to be family. to your old bob or mohammad a was returning from a mosque on a curve is mob surrounded him. a russian citizen he came to. to see his relatives.
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they still haven't found enough courage to tell his mother what happened. then you have the we never separated 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 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 pieces back villagers are also guilty of murder on the second day of riots they killed the chief of a local police precinct and his colleagues all of whom. the family of one of the
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victims is still looking for his had to be buried together if he's 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 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 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 as. so tame the death toll this created
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yet another spark of ethnic hatred between the already seething communities. my nephews appeared at the cemetery and now every grave is being dug up. 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 a male had 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 enough for execution. during the first day of clashes somebody started watching the ethnicity of us residents right on the doors of those bags it meant black marks.
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but 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 as are 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 leave in 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 men have taken me by the hand and threw me on. car. i fell there in my stomach my
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child sometimes is moving sometimes he's silent. it wasn't always this way born and raised but i'm not and told plan have known each other since elementary school. and this back and occurred the two remember their homes as an example of interact 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
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in the clashes once before twenty years ago or so its brightest after the riots over distribution of land. called strolled poncho life. he still living. in the boss and we saw a crowd of ahead of us that. one didn't see it. with long dress all the others in the boss were killed. in the. horrifying 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
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to be fearful of. these girl was the same. thing with your mother. when the bullets. in. the clashes in southern kyrgyzstan were well organized many of the. president's vosh had access to weaponry and they didn't just indiscriminately destroy everything in our way in fact. very selective in their targets. for all of. these bloodbath had all the trappings of an attempt to. one of the so-called color revolutions in former soviet states that added yet another blots to
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the rat sun is setting a notch bringing the bloodiest weaken the city's millenia long history so close. but it's imposing mon tins and fertile valleys used to this part of poets and painters. now it's trigger streets provide a matter for for the shattered lives of its residents. 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 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
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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 has killed several of his neighbors. said he was behind this with. they were also downstairs and on the roof. it could be reason 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 an iron rod says he's only weapons and the viciousness of his adversaries. then you shouldn't trust. their swallowing. their animals it was. just this is too good 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
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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 zeal of any will to leave. us 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. 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
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a pregnant women as well as underage girls about twelve sixteen years old it is not. left face to face with an prosecution to truth listeners for more than a week the people of southern kyrgyzstan waited for their leaders to step in but the authorities both on the regional and the state level just watched the carnage from the sidelines. national channels gave little airtime to the events of the south showing these commercial in stab leave even if. it's up. to run to. when it became clear that the authorities were unable 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. until. i left couple of good news that we don't leave here the jets to survive here like. when i grew up i will be killing everybody. but they held never came and stabbed two weeks later the interim leadership for the homeless and the grieving a choice a parliamentary or 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.
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killed by government forces during. his now remember that his village as a national hero. helped bring about freedom and democracy. this pressure in the. country during the revolution. is relative them on the most loyal supporters of the interim government but 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 fallen to many followers in the capital bishkek in the south of the country that met with anger. death which is
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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 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 of an most 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 protect us why do we need to a government should be protecting us and instead they came here with marauders with murderers they killed our sons robbed our families. well i can be cured communities these people haven't seen the single election official yet many still
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went to the polls hoping the authorities won't fail them again. that. we have nothing you know. everything. is a third to help us to rebuilt. we will support them. absent during 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
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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. by the end of the day polling stations in those back and claves had seen so many hard braking encounters that even some election officials started questioning the need for voter told. me see it 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 all to the way many here hold the authorities will finally get dollar to what really matters the caregivers in those
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backs still live on different sides of the barricades paying for cruelty with mercy and vice versa. 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 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 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
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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 to fight. both communities are up on guns both sending their children the way the right to kill has been abolished.
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thousands of people homeless at central russia stuff as it was he's way we know that a hundred years. tops account down the water supplies in russia as far east they're under threat that chinese authorities struggle to stop the bounds of the chemical way fouls launched from a flooded river from breaching russian. i understand you sorties of anti nazi protesters but a lot of them with soldiers an assault with the don't seem to gather for the liberation of the country. hello and welcome to all t twenty four hour news live from moscow i mean you national politics and main story now at least twenty eight people have perished in forest fires raging across central russia the country's reeling and it was taped way than one hundred thirty days which started in the middle of june the russian
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emergencies ministry says it's taking the situation under control however firefighters are still struggling with the blazes thousands have been left homeless in the past few days by the flames which have consumed a number of entire villages also use our first reports now from the veronese region one of the worst hit areas. well in brightness they've made managing to get the situation under control often the last few days has seen a huge amount of destruction caused by these by as we've visited the town of muscle of coaches one of the worst hit in the area is some of the people who are living that find out how they were taping with the situation they could only watch helplessly at the firestorm that played on. one person's life this is the village of muscle of about fifteen minutes from british fifty center one of the places worst affected by the fires that have left many of the homes completely destroyed. the fire wasted no time.
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