Kyrgyzstan boasts that it has over 80 distinct ethnic groups in the country ... between 1917 and the mid-1930s and redrew all the maps, they really had no meaning. But since the fall of the ...

Mobs of rioters slaughtered Uzbeks and burned their homes and businesses in Kyrgyzstan's worst ethnic violence in decades, sending more than 75,000 members of the ethnic minority fleeing the ...

Most of the violence was aimed at the local Uzbek minority, which owns many of the businesses in Osh, a large city in southern Kyrgyzstan.Alexei Osokin / Reuters Contact us at [email protected] ...

(Berlin) – Courts in southern Kyrgyzstan have sentenced two ethnic Uzbeks to life in prison following unfair trials on charges related to the June 2010 inter-ethnic violence in the region ...

OSH, Kyrgyzstan After three days of ethnic rioting that spread across the south of this strategically important Central Asian nation, many streets in this city lay in smoldering ruins on Sunday ...

Andijan, Uzbekistan (CNN)-- Lying on his hospital bed in Andijan, in eastern Uzbekistan, 65-year-old Khikmatullo Urunbayev, an ethnic Uzbek grandfather from Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan ...

Kyrgyzstan’s interim government has denied allegations that security forces colluded with armed mobs to drive ethnic Uzbeks out of the cities of Osh and Jalalabad during deadly clashes in the ...

(New York) - Kyrgyzstan should act on recommendations in an international report released on May 3, 2011, to investigate systematic ethnic attacks during the June 2010 violence in southern ...

It's been 10 years since violent clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in southern Kyrgyzstan claimed hundreds of lives. Fighting broke out in the country's second-biggest city of Osh and led ...

OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- Ethnic riots wracked southern Kyrgyzstan on Saturday, forcing thousands of Uzbeks to flee as their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men. The interim government begged ...