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Kyrgyzstan goes to the polls in historic election (AP)

October 9th, 2010 | Author: admin

A Kyrgyz policeman provides security at a polling station in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Of the 29 parties in the running in Sunday's elections, at least half a dozen are expected to make it into a newly strengthened parliament, as an intensely fought and often ugly campaign draws to an end. (AP Photo/Nina Gorshkova)AP – Polls have opened in Kyrgyzstan for historic elections to choose a new, empowered parliament that the government hopes will usher in a new era of democracy.


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Kyrgyzstan votes in key referendum after violence (AP)

June 27th, 2010 | Author: admin

A young Kyrgyz couple walk in front of a billboard reading as 'Constitution: Change our selves - change our life! June 27, Referendum' in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, June 26, 2010. The referendum on upcoming Sunday will ask the people of this country, which is on the brink of further ethnic strife, to approve a new constitution. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP – The people of violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday on a new constitution that the interim government hopes will legitimize the power it seized after a deadly uprising.


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Kyrgyzstan votes in key referendum (AP)

June 26th, 2010 | Author: admin

An Ethnic Uzbek woman reacts near burned houses in the Furkat district of Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Kyrgyzstan holds a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a risky gamble amid deadly ethnic tensions but one the interim government hopes will legitimize their hold on power until the region's first parliamentary democracy looks strikingly similar to the constitution drawn up by former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted in a bloody revolution three months ago. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP – Polls opened in Kyrgyzstan for a referendum Sunday to choose a new constitution that the interim government hopes will legitimize its power until new parliamentary elections in October.


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Kyrgyzstan charges rights advocate with incitement (AP)

June 19th, 2010 | Author: admin

Ethnic Uzbeks cross the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border as they leave Kyrgyzstan near the southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP – Prosecutors in Kyrgyzstan say they have charged a human rights activist with inciting ethnic hatred for accusing the military of complicity in deadly violence that rocked the south.


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UN: 400,000 now uprooted by Kyrgyzstan unrest (AP)

June 17th, 2010 | Author: admin

Kyrgyz Army soldiers are alert atop an armored personal carrier patrolling the outskirts of the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, June 17, 2010, with a humanitarian convoy behind the truck. Hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks fled their homes seeking refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan after deadly rampages by mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP – Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border.


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Uzbeks flee Kyrgyzstan, seek safety at border (AP)

June 14th, 2010 | Author: admin

** CAPTION ADDITION, ADDS ID ** An Uzbek woman who identified herself only as Khadicha, and who fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh after her husband was killed and house burned down stands in line in no-man's-land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan, Monday, June 14, 2010. Tens of thousands of refugees fled pogroms that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP – Standing behind barbed wire with other Uzbek refugees, the woman tearfully raised her hands in a Muslim prayer Monday for her dead husband. She had left his body at their burned-down house in southern Kyrgyzstan while fleeing ethnic riots that reduced much of a major city to ruins.


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Fresh ethnic violence erupts in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 14th, 2010 | Author: admin

Clothes pegs hang on a rope in the foreground as an Uzbeks' residence burns after being torched by Kyrgyz men, in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. In Jalal-Abad on Sunday, thousands of Kyrgyz men brandishing sticks, metal bars and hunting rifles gathered at the city's horse racing track and marched out to burn Uzbek property while frightened police stayed away. (AP Photo/Zarip Toroyev)AP – Sporadic gunfire has continued through the night in southern Kyrgyzstan as the Central Asian nation’s worst ethnic violence in decades shows no signs of abating.


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