At least 400,000 people have been displaced due to deadly fighting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan [AFP]
Published On 23 Jun 201023 Jun 2010
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About 100,000 of them have entered neighbouring Uzbekistan [AFP]
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Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan(***)s interim president, has said as many as 2,000 people may have been killed in the unrest [EPA]
Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan, has accused (***)outside(***) elements of instigating the violence, saying neither ethnic Uzbeks nor Kyrgyz started it [AFP]
The interim government claims that Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the ousted president, had orchestrated the fighting [EPA]
Several women have reported that they were raped [EPA]
Homes and businesses in the cities of Osh and Jalal-abad have been torched [AFP]
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Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has issued an appeal for $71 million in aid [AFP]
