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Thousands Flee as Ethnic Rioting Rages in Kyrgyzstan

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (June 13) -- 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 country in attacks that appeared aimed at undermining the Central Asian nation's interim...

Ethnic Riots Claim at Least 37 Lives in Kyrgyzstan

(June 11) -- At least 37 people have died and more than 500 been wounded in ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished Central Asian nation with high strategic value to the U.S. as a supply base for its troops in Afghanistan. A state of emergency was declared in Osh, the country's second-largest city, after fighting...

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An ethnic group is a group of people who share a common ethnicity. That is, its members identify with each other through a common heritage, consisting of a common culture, including a shared language or dialect.

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