{"id":163671,"date":"2010-06-16T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2010\/06\/16\/kyrgyzstan-begins-3-days-of-mourning-210141-eng\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:34:05","slug":"kyrgyzstan-begins-3-days-of-mourning-210141-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/kyrgyzstan-begins-3-days-of-mourning-210141-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan begins 3 Days of Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Kyrgyzstan has begun three days of mourning for the nearly 180 people killed in ethnic violence in the country’s south. Government officials say flags will fly at half-staff starting Wednesday and that entertainment events would be canceled.<\/p>\n

News agencies reported that violence has subsided over the past two days. They said armed Kyrgyz troops were patrolling the streets in the city of Osh and that military checkpoints had been set up on several roads. The south is a power base for former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted in an April 7 uprising that killed 85 people. The deposed leader, who has taken refuge in Belarus, has denied allegations that his supporters instigated the ethnic violence.<\/p>\n

Also Wednesday, Kyrgyzstan sent the secretary of its security council to Moscow for meetings with some top officials and to discuss ways to speed up the delivery of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n

Some humanitarian aid has already arrived in the region. United Nations officials said its first plane carrying supplies for thousands of refugees fleeing the violence landed Wednesday at the Andijan airport in neighboring Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n

U.N. refugee agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic in Geneva has said that up to 200,000 people had been displaced in Kyrgyzstan, with tens of thousands crossing into neighboring Uzbekistan or massing near the border. Refugees have reported incidents of rape and indiscriminate killings.<\/p>\n

Kyrgyzstan’s health ministry updated the official death toll Wednesday from the violence to 179 in the Osh and Jalalabad regions, lower than Tuesday’s estimate from the International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n

The ICRC said several hundred people had been killed and Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader Roza Otunbayeva said Tuesday that the death toll could be several times higher than the official count. Nearly 1,900 people have required medical attention, according to Kyrgyz health officials.<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is sending a senior diplomat to Kyrgyzstan to discuss the crisis and humanitarian aid. Robert Blake, the top U.S. diplomat for South and Central Asian affairs, will travel to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

Several Asian governments have been evacuating their nationals from southern Kyrgyzstan. China, India, Pakistan and South Korea all organized flights to rescue citizens working or studying in Kyrgyzstan Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Kyrgyzstan has begun three days of mourning for the nearly 180 people killed in ethnic violence in the countrys south. Government officials say flags will fly at half-staff starting Wednesday and that entertainment events would be canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Kyrgyzstan has begun three days of mourning for the nearly 180 people killed in ethnic violence in the country’s south. Government officials say flags will fly at half-staff starting Wednesday and that entertainment events would be canceled.<\/p>\n

News agencies reported that violence has subsided over the past two days. They said armed Kyrgyz troops were patrolling the streets in the city of Osh and that military checkpoints had been set up on several roads. The south is a power base for former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted in an April 7 uprising that killed 85 people. The deposed leader, who has taken refuge in Belarus, has denied allegations that his supporters instigated the ethnic violence.<\/p>\n

Also Wednesday, Kyrgyzstan sent the secretary of its security council to Moscow for meetings with some top officials and to discuss ways to speed up the delivery of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n

Some humanitarian aid has already arrived in the region. United Nations officials said its first plane carrying supplies for thousands of refugees fleeing the violence landed Wednesday at the Andijan airport in neighboring Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n

U.N. refugee agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic in Geneva has said that up to 200,000 people had been displaced in Kyrgyzstan, with tens of thousands crossing into neighboring Uzbekistan or massing near the border. Refugees have reported incidents of rape and indiscriminate killings.<\/p>\n

Kyrgyzstan’s health ministry updated the official death toll Wednesday from the violence to 179 in the Osh and Jalalabad regions, lower than Tuesday’s estimate from the International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n

The ICRC said several hundred people had been killed and Kyrgyzstan’s interim leader Roza Otunbayeva said Tuesday that the death toll could be several times higher than the official count. Nearly 1,900 people have required medical attention, according to Kyrgyz health officials.<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is sending a senior diplomat to Kyrgyzstan to discuss the crisis and humanitarian aid. Robert Blake, the top U.S. diplomat for South and Central Asian affairs, will travel to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

Several Asian governments have been evacuating their nationals from southern Kyrgyzstan. China, India, Pakistan and South Korea all organized flights to rescue citizens working or studying in Kyrgyzstan Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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