U.S. Envoy Urges Independent Probe Into Kyrgyz Riots
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › June 20, 2010
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - A top U.S. envoy called Saturday for an independent investigation into the violence that has devastated southern Kyrgyzstan, as amateur video emerged of unarmed Uzbeks gathering to defend their town during the attacks.
Prosecutors on Saturday charged Azimzhan Askarov, the head of a prominent human rights group who shot the video, with inciting ethnic hatred. Askarov had accused the military of complicity in the bloody rampages that sent hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks fleeing for their lives.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Envoy Urges Independent Probe Into Kyrgyz Riots
The country's rights ombudsman, Tursunbek Akun, ...
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