{"id":7052,"date":"2010-06-18T18:27:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2010-06-18T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:27:52","slug":"many-people-kyrgyz-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/many-people-kyrgyz-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Many people need aid after Kyrgyz violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Many<\/a>Up to a million people may need aid after deadly ethnic violence erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The country\u2019s government has struggled to restore order following clashes between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, around the ancient city of Osh, which killed about 200 people.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of refugees, mainly women and children, are crammed into makeshift camps in the plains of the Ferghana valley, many running out of food and water.<\/p>\n

Unicef spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume said the one million figure was an estimate to help agencies plan how much aid they need to prepare.<\/p>\n

Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader Roza Otunbayeva has flown to the country’s south in a bid to calm tensions.<\/p>\n

She said: “I came here to see, to speak with the people and hear first-hand what happened here. We will do everything to rebuild this city (Osh).”<\/p>\n

Ahead of her trip, Ms Otunbayeva admitted the death toll may be 10 times higher than official figures.<\/p>\n

She told the Russian daily Kommersant: “There were very many deaths in the countryside, and our customs dictate that we bury our dead right away, before sunset.”<\/p>\n

This meant many bodies were buried before deaths could be registered with authorities, Ms Otunbayeva explained.<\/p>\n

Victims of the unrest have claimed the violence was a brutal and orchestrated campaign by armed militias of ethnic Kyrgyz targeting their Uzbek neighbours.<\/p>\n

But Ms Otunbayeva played down the scale of animosity between the groups that fuelled the clashes, saying: “We have always lived together and we always will live together.”<\/p>\n

The riots were the worst ethnic clashes to hit the impoverished Central Asian state since the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Uzbeks make up 14% of Kyrgyzstan’s population of 5.3 million.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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