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VICTOR DRACHEV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Refugees gather near their tents on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. Clashes have killed as many as 2,000 people and affected about 1 million. U.S. envoy wants probe of Kyrgyz riots
Ethnic Uzbek leader detained after shooting video of attacks
by Romain Goguelin and Yuras Karmanau
bishkek, kyrgyzstan — A top U.S. envoy called Saturday for an independent investigation into the violence that has devas- tated southern Kyrgyzstan, as amateur video emerged of un- armed Uzbeks gathering to de- fend their town during the at- tacks. Prosecutors on Saturday
charged the man who shot the video, Azimzhan Askarov, with inciting ethnic hatred. Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek who heads the
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prominent human rights group Air, had accused the military of complicity in the bloody rampag- es that sent hundreds of thou- sands of Uzbeks fleeing for their lives. Kyrgyzstan’s rights ombuds-
man, Tursunbek Akun, insisted that the charges against Askarov were fabricated, and activists in Bishkek demonstrated outside United Nations offices to demand his release. Valentina Gritsenko, head of
the Justice rights organization, said she feared Askarov was be- ing tortured. He was detained with his brother Tuesday in his southern hometown of Bazar- Korgon, colleagues said. Entire Uzbek neighborhoods
in southern Kyrgyzstan have been reduced to scorched ruins by mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz who forced nearly half of the region’s roughly 800,000 Uzbeks to flee. Interim President Roza Otun- bayeva said that up to 2,000 peo- ple might have died in the clash- es.
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Robert Blake met with Otunbaye- va in Bishkek, the capital, Satur- day after touring several packed refugee camps in neighboring Uzbekistan. Blake said that the interim gov- ernment should probe the vio- lence and that “such an investiga- tion should be complemented by an international investigation by a credible international body.” He said the United States is working with the Kyrgyz government to make sure the refugees will be able to return home safely. The U.S. government has released $32.2 million in aid, and Russia and France sent planeloads of re- lief gear. Kyrgyz authorities say the vio-
lence was sparked by supporters of former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted in April amid accusations of corruption. The U.N. has said the unrest ap- peared orchestrated, but has stopped short of assigning blame. Bakiyev, from exile, has denied
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Exodus from violence in Kyrgyzstan
Residents continue to flee ethnic attacks by bus, car
or on foot—any way they can.
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any involvement. Many ethnic Uzbeks accused
security forces of standing by or helping majority Kyrgyz mobs as they slaughtered Uzbeks and burned neighborhoods. Col. Is- kander Ikramov, chief of the Kyr- gyz military in the south, says the army did not interfere because it is not a police force. The Associated Press obtained
Askarov’s video, which was shot June 13 at the height of the ram- pages. It shows a few dozen Uz- beks pacing nervously around a square in Bazar-Korgon, an eth-
“This is our nation, this is a holy land, but I can’t live here
anymore.” Mukhabat Ergashova, ethnic Uzbek retiree
nic Uzbek settlement, apparently before rioters descended. Armed with only sticks and stones, sev- eral men are seen heading across the square as gun shots ring out and smoke rises in background. “Are we going to just sit around
and wait for them?” one man says in Uzbek. In a different shot, a voice that colleagues confirm as Askarov’s
“They’re getting close.” “So many people have died
over there ... One armed group is gone. There is still another which has stayed. They’re shooting from the direction of the prison, and Uzbeks have nothing but sticks
is heard saying,
one meter or half a meter long. There is smoke rising, and I have no idea what’s left there,” Askarov says.
Destruction caused during the
rampages was visible Saturday in parts of Bazar-Korgon, and Aska- rov’s office was one of several gut- ted buildings. The U.N. estimates 400,000
people have fled their homes and about 100,000 of them have en- tered Uzbekistan. Thousands of ethnic Uzbeks
massed this week in VLKSM (Veh-L-Kah-S-M), a village near Kyrgyzstan’s main southern city of Osh. The village’s name is a Russian-language acronym for the Soviet Communist Youth League, left over from when this Central Asian nation was a Soviet republic. Christian Cardon, a spokes-
man for the International Com- mittee of the Red Cross, said agency workers distributed oil and wheat flour to 12,750 dis- placed people in VLKSM on Sat- urday and handed out supplies to 18,750 displaced in Suretapa. “The situation is still quite
tense, but we’re able to access all the places” where uprooted peo- ple have gathered, he said. Red Cross and Kyrgyz Red Crescent workers monitor the distribution of aid, he said. Many said they could not go
back to their towns and live next to the people they accuse of at- tacking them. “This is our nation, this is a
holy land, but I can’t live here anymore,” said Mukhabat Er- gashova, a retiree who had taken shelter with dozens of others in a crowded tent. “Weare all witnesses to the fact
that innocent citizens were fired upon from an armored personnel carrier by soldiers in military uni- form. I don’t know whether they were from the government or some third party, but they only shot at Uzbeks,” said Sabir Khai- dir, an ethnic Uzbek in Jalal- Abad.
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