ANTOINE LAMBROSCHINI

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Rumours trigger tension in Kyrgyz

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Wild rumours of more violence flew through Kyrgyzstan’s ravaged south Saturday, stoking tensions in a region on edge after the worst ethnic clashes since the collapse of the Soviet Union. “On Saturday, the Army will clean out the Uzbek districts,” warned a hotel owner who gave his name only as Bakha. “The Kyrgyz state will attack us to carry out a genocide,” predicted Bakhtiyar Akhmedov, an Uzbek man living in a district where makeshift barricades still stand outside homes.

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