Shoot-to-kill in Kyrgyz south amid deadly ethnic unrest

[Posteritatis]

Source: BBC News

Kyrgyzstan's interim government has given security forces shoot-to-kill powers in a bid to stop ethnic fighting which has taken nearly 80 lives.

Thousands of ethnic Uzbeks have been fleeing the southern city of Osh where ethnic Kyrgyz gangs are said to be marauding through the streets.

Almost 1,000 people were also hurt in the worst unrest since President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's overthrow in April.

Russia says it does not plan to intervene despite a Kyrgyz request.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10302611.stm

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Yow.

[Robb]

1. Replay of the Osh riots.

This was way too likely. Damn, this will get uglier by the day, and Russia again is going to sit out the first nine rounds. :(

[Downwinder]

2. Did the USA handle Honduras any better? n/t

[Robb]

3. No.

...But to be fair, Honduras was never part of the United States. In 1990 you'll recall the Russians were still called the Soviet Union, and this was part of their country. Now, it's not, of course.

Lines on a map moved, but the attitude is the same.