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India Sends Humanitarian Aid to Kyrgyzstan
India has been following closely recent internal developments in Kyrgyzstan, a friendly Central Asian country in its extended neighborhood. While calm has returned to Southern Kyrgyzstan after the unfortunate incidents of violence in mid June, the events,...
KYRGYZSTAN: Bazar-Kurgan Returnees Pick Up the Pieces
Ethnic Uzbek Nigora Kamalova has been trying to come to terms with the ordeal she lived through over the past three weeks: violence, fear, displacement and the return to a burnt down home and uncertain future.
Uzbekistan Government Thanks Citizens for Helping Kyrgyzstan Refugees
Some 100,000 people, who crossed the border into Uzbekistan after the tragic events of June 11-15 in the south of Kyrgyzstan, were temporarily placed in Andijan, Namangan and Ferghana regions of Uzbekistan and provided with required help.
KYRGYZSTAN: Delicate Ethnic Balance
Kyrgyzstan’s population of 5.3 million comprises three main ethnic groups: Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Russians. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the number of ethnic Russians has declined, particularly in the south, where internal migration...
KYRGYZSTAN-UZBEKISTAN: Refugees in Numbers
Ethnic Uzbek women, children and the elderly living in southern Kyrgyzstan continue to flee clashes with Kyrgyz groups and cross the nearby border into Uzbekistan in search of security and shelter.
KYRGYZSTAN-UZBEKISTAN: Tens of Thousands of Refugees in Need of Assistance
Clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz groups in southern Kyrgyzstan since June 10th have killed at least 170 people, injured 1,762 and forced 300,000 to flee their homes, according to the Kyrgyz Ministry of Health and UN agencies.
American Red Cross Providing Aid As Unrest in Kyrgyzstan Drives Families Across International Borders
Out of concern for the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people in southern Kyrgyzstan, who have fled to rural areas, mosques and farms following days of brutal violence in the country, the Red Cross has launched a multi-country humanitarian...
Russian Emergencies Ministry Aircraft Carrying Humanitarian Aid Land in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Three Russian Emergencies Ministry aircraft with 130 tons of humanitarian aid landed in Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday. The planes left Moscow at midday, carrying blankets, canned food and sugar.
