They are killing Uzbeks like animals

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Some 100,000 minority Uzbeks fleeing a purge by mobs of Kyrgyz massed at the border Monday, an Uzbek leader said, as the deadliest ethnic violence to hit this Central Asian nation in decades left a major city smoldering.

With fires raging in the southern city of Osh for a fourth day Monday, the official death toll of 124 killed and nearly 1,500 injured from the clashes that began Thursday appeared way too low.

The New York Times reported that Kyrgyz volunteers carrying bats and iron bars — some of whom had arrived recently from the north of Kyrgyzstan — patrolled outlying villages, claiming to defend the country’s south against an Uzbek attempt to seize it.

An Uzbek community leader claimed at least 200 Uzbeks alone had already been buried, and the International Committee of the Red Cross said its delegates saw about 100 bodies being buried in just one cemetery.

In some parts of Osh, Kyrgyz residents protected homes housing both Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.

Ethnic Uzbeks in a besieged neighborhood in Osh said gangs were carrying out "genocide," burning residents out of their homes and shooting them as they fled. Witnesses saw bodies lying on the streets.

They are killing Uzbeks like animals. Almost the whole city is in flames," Dilmurad Ishanov, an ethnic Uzbek human rights worker, told Reuters by telephone.

Retired construction worker Habibullah Khurulayev, 69, said he was afraid to leave his apartment in the besieged district of Osh. Uzbeks armed with hunting rifles manned improvised barricades to keep out Kyrgyz gangs with automatic rifles, he said.

"They are killing us with impunity," he said. "The police are doing nothing."

Thousands of fleeing residents gathered on the border with Uzbekistan at Nariman, according to The New York Times, where Dilmurad Failakov, a doctor from a local hospital, said four newborns had died on Monday morning alone.

Doctors in Nariman told The New York Times they were struggling to treat gunshot wounds and cases of dysentery under circumstances they described as desperate. There was no government presence at the growing camp and 10 of patients had died because he had no access to medical supplies, Failakov told the newspaper.

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[LeetPirate]

wow this is really bad. :blink: where is the UN when they are needed???

[Bizarre™]

Damn. It's kill or be killed out there :ph34r:

[implague]

this is F**king chaos

[Muhannad]

its the same in Iraq and Afghanistan, Nigeria, Israel

shame on UN, and United Nations Security Counci

[myidisbb]

thanks russia for this mess.

in the end its muslims killing muslims. go figure. sadly sometimes a country is more stabl ewith a corrupt leader