Kyrgyzstan Ethnic Clashes

Violence ebbed on June 15 and people began emerging from their barricaded homes in Kyrgyzstan's ethnically torn south, as evidence mounted that days of brutal bloodletting had been deliberately organized to ignite long-running tensions between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.

Nine hundred foreign nationals, including 78 Indians, were on Monday evacuated from the violence-hit areas of southern Kyrgyzstan where the death toll in five days of ethnic clashes has reached 124.

Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan have left more than 100 people dead; thousands of refugees are crossing the border into Uzbekistan. (See pics)  Stranded in the country are 90 Indian students, who the Indian government says it is trying to evacuate. Fierce clashes between the Kyrgyz majority and the Uzbek minority erupted on Thursday night, tur...

Violence ebbed on June 15 and people began emerging from their barricaded homes in Kyrgyzstan's ethnically torn south, as evidence mounted that days of brutal bloodletting had been deliberately organized to ignite long-running tensions between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.

Nine hundred foreign nationals, including 78 Indians, were on Monday evacuated from the violence-hit areas of southern Kyrgyzstan where the death toll in five days of ethnic clashes has reached 124.

Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan have left more than 100 people dead; thousands of refugees are crossing the border into Uzbekistan. (See pics)  Stranded in the country are 90 Indian students, who the Indian government says it is trying to evacuate. Fierce clashes between the Kyrgyz majority and the Uzbek minority erupted on Thursday night, tur...