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KYRGYZSTAN - ETHNIC VIOLENCE & AFTERMATH - REPORT - WOMEN

 

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Kyrgyzstan - Zhura Payzulaeva cries as she recounts how seven members of her family were killed in the first two days of ethnic clashes in Osh. June 23, 2010.

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Human Rights Watch

“Where is the Justice?”

Interethnic Violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan and Its Aftermath

http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2010/08/16/where-justice-0

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This 91-page Human Rights Watch Report states that some government forces acted, knowingly or unwittingly, to facilitate attacks on ethnic Uzbek neighborhoods in the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010. Local law enforcement agencies also failed to provide appropriate protection to the Uzbek community. The government’s investigation into the violence, which left hundreds dead and thousands injured, has been marred with abuses, while new ethnically motivated attacks are taking place in the south.

Human Rights Watch The report is based on more than 200 interviews with Kyrgyz and Uzbek victims and witnesses, lawyers, human rights defenders, government officials, and law enforcement personnel. The report also analyzes satellite imagery and photographic, video, documentary, and forensic evidence.