Kyrgyzstan: new fights between between kyrgyz and uzbek minority, 117 death
After three days of ethnic rioting that spread across the south of this strategically important Central Asian nation, many streets in Osh city lay in smoldering ruins on Sunday night.
The official death toll rose to more than 100, and thousands of refugees poured across the border into Uzbekistan as the authorities were unable to contain the murderous mobs.
Whole sections of Osh, where longstanding tensions between the Kyrgyz majority and the Uzbek minority exploded into violence Thursday night, were all but deserted on Sunday, and heavy black smoke still billowed from uzbek enclaves set afire by kyrgyz gangs.