UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council has condemned the bloody violence in restive Kyrgyzstan and pressed for a return to law and order along with a peaceful resolution of differences. The council's 15 ambassadors "condemned...
UN: Uzbeks Face Torture, Abuses in Kyrgyzstan
The New York Times
The New York Times
Filed at 7:53 a.m. ET GENEVA (AP) -- The United Nations says it has received reports of continued torture and other atrocities by Kyrgyzstan forces against ethnic Uzbeks. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay says hundreds...
German foreign minister urges Uzbek help in stabilizing Kyrgyzstan
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan - German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle Thursday called on the autocratic leader of Uzbekistan to help stabilize neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, which has been plagued by waves of violent unrest since...
Ethnic Uzbeks deprived health treatment and refuge
Herald Tribune
Herald Tribune
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - International health and rights groups said Wednesday that minority ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan are being deprived of medical treatment and opportunities to seek refuge in neighboring...
Ethnic Uzbeks suffering beatings and torture, says UN
Irish Times
Irish Times
DANIEL McLAUGHLIN THE UNITED Nations' human rights chief says security forces are torturing, beating and illegally detaining ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan, where hundreds of people were killed and hundreds of...
Taliban exploiting openings in neglected northern Afghan province
Newstrack India
Newstrack India
Pul-i-Kumri (Afghanistan), July 30 (ANI): The Taliban is exploiting people in the neglected northern Afghan province of Baghlan, which according to reports, is slipping away from government control. Deprived of...
Afghan army struggles with ethnic divisions
Herald Tribune
Herald Tribune
ARGHANDAB VALLEY, Afghanistan - The Afghan soldiers look like they belong. They wear beards, carry Soviet-era rifles and stride confidently through fields of wheat, melons and okra. In one village, a young girl brings...
Kyrgyz forces arrest and torture ethnic Uzbeks: U.N.
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
GENEVA (Reuters) – Security forces have rounded up ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan and tortured some, pulling out their fingernails and burning them with cigarettes, the United Nations said on Tuesday. U.N....
Police arrest head of Kosovo Central Bank
Fresno Bee
Fresno Bee
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Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan: Governments Should Open Border
Human Rights
Human Rights
(Osh) - The Kyrgyz and Uzbek governments should open their borders to allow members of the ethnic Uzbek population in southern Kyrgyzstan to seek protection in Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Uzbekistan should...
International commission to probe Kyrgyzstan ethnic violence
Zeenews
Zeenews
Moscow: A transatlantic international commission will conduct a probe into the ethnic violence against Uzbek minorities in south Kyrgyzstan that killed 2,000 people and left at least 4,000 displaced. The probe, which...
Human Rights Watch warns abuse of ethnic Uzbek by Kyrgyz forces will stoke renewed unrest
Star Tribune
Star Tribune
Executives find reputations don't return after criminal charges dropped
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
David Pinkerton had just left his 8-year-old twins at his in-laws' home in Morristown, N.J., when he learned he was no longer a suspected felon. Pinkerton's lawyer called to say that the U.S. prosecutors who had charged...

