Sunday, March 4, 2012

Interim leader: Up to 2,000 dead in Kyrgyz clashes

Kyrgyzstan's interim president said Friday that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south _ many times her government's official estimate _ as she made her first visit to a riot-hit city since the unrest erupted.

Kyrgyz Health Ministry officials figures have put the number of killed in rampages led mainly by ethnic Kyrgyz against Uzbeks at 191.

"I would increase by ten times the official data on the number of people killed," Interim President Roza Otunbayeva said, according to her spokesman, Farid Niyazov. She said current figures don't take into account those buried before sundown on the day of death in …

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