The Full Horror Of Ethnic Slaughter Is Emerging From Kyrgyzstan

Uzbeks In Desperate Plea For Aid As Full Horror Of Ethnic Slaughter Emerges -- The Guardian

A combination of clan feuds, corruption and indifference in the west is creating a lethal cocktail in Kyrgyzstan. In one town, 5km from the border, the charred ruins of a school bear witness to the violence unleashed by mobs and the army.

The classroom where the children once learned English had miraculously survived. On the wall was a large sign that read: "England, London and Great Britain." Inside a glass cabinet was a neat folder marked "irregular verbs"; next to the blackboard were three vases of flowers – now withered. The students had given them to their teacher, Mrs Raimsanova, on the last day of term.

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More News On Kyrgyzstan

Refugees implicate Kyrgyz security forces in ethnic violence -- CNN
Kyrgyz Officials Order Uzbeks to Remove Barriers -- New York Times
Kyrgyzstan vows to probe ethnic violence -- AFP
US envoy urges independent probe into Kyrgyz riots -- AP
Kyrgyz Leader Says All is Calm Now But Hundreds May be Dead -- Voice of America
Kyrgyzstan charges rights advocate with incitement -- AP

My Comment: Some Russian media sources are now implying that thousands .... not 2,000 .... were killed in Kyrgyzstan, thousands injured or traumatized from rape, and 1,000,000 displaced from their homes. It also appears that much of this pogrom was managed and directed from the security and military forces .... and if that is the case .... I would have to assume that some (or many) in the Kyrgyzstan government were also involved.

The full story of this disaster will be known in the next few weeks and months .... but any inquiry has to be independent from the Kyrgyzstan government .... a situation that I sincerely doubt will happen since it appears that some (or many) in the Kyrgyzstan government were directly involved in this slaughter and would not want any independent inquiry putting its nose into their affairs.