Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks are blaming each other for starting the violence, which has killed about 100 people in southern Kyrgyzstan.
The interim government is struggling to stop the unrest from spreading.
Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher reports from the capital, Bishkek.
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