On tragic
events in the south of Kyrgyzstan:
Statement of Uzbek compatriots
14 June 2010
On the night of 9 June 2010 mass killings,
pogroms and ethnic cleansing
started in Southern Kyrgyzstan,
with mostly local Uzbek
population falling victims.
Bands of pogromists attacking
Uzbek communities, use automatic weapons, armors, and all this is happening with connivance
and sometimes even complicity of the police and armed forces of Kyrgyzstan. There are hundreds of
those killed, thousands wounded, dozens of thousands of refugees. Murders of civilians are especially intricate and unprecedented in cruelty. The
data at our disposal lets us speak
of mass genocide of Uzbek
population in the south of Kyrgyzstan.
We express our
deepest condolences to the families of the deceased. We are also urging
the international community, first of all the UN Security Council, to immediately interfere and put an end to killings and violence.
Lingering with intervention the Security Council might share repsonsibility
for new victims of the violence.
The information
provided by the monitors from the south
of Kyrgyzstan testifies to
the fact tat the central
power has no control whatsoever
over the situation. Taking advantage
of this aggressive and armed crowds
commit mass murders of civilians, at that as
a rule victims are chosen
on ethnic grounds. Small
arms and armors are widely used, the crowd is looting and settign on fire whole villages
and suburban districts of the cities
of Osh and Djalalabad, where Ubek population is concentrated. According to official data as of 14 June the number
of corpses received at mortuaries has reached 138. However, taking into account bodies
not taken away from the streets,
as well as burials by-passing mortuaries, the number of the killed amounts ot hundreds, and of those wounded — to thousands.
Armed extremists do not let take the bodies
away, attack emergency ambulance staff rendering assistance to the victims and firemen who are trying to put out fires.
The authorities manage to maintain relative order only in
the central quarters of the central cities of the regions. The military
and police can't defend even their
own objects to prevent plundering of guns, ammunition and military machines. There are cases of complicity of police officers, security structures and army in pogroms
and killings of civilians, as well
as in instigation of youth
to pogroms.
At the moment it is impossible to objectively ascertain who exactly started the massacre and why. The facts at our disposal testify
to a well-thought of provocation
aimed at playing off some ethnic
groups against others, at instigating hatred of
the titular ethnic group towards ethnic minorities. We will still need to find it all out. But the main thing
now is to promptly stop the
killings and violence, restore
law and order, guarantee
the safety for citizens, improve people's living conditions and supplies.
We are urging the UN Security Council to
call an emergency session and suggest one of the permanent members, probably Russia, with the participation of other countries, sending peace-keeping forces under the auspices of the UN to the region to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing. We understand
that the government of Kyrgyzstan,
the leading Kyrgyz politicians, and the local
population itself are expecting
this sort of intervention from the UN, OSCE and Russia
with humanitarian purposes
and to stop the massacre. The peace-keeping mission should be accountable to the UN Security
Council and OSCE, which should
formulate the conditions
under which the peace-keeping
mission will be implemented,
and provide for the mechanism for its
control.
We are welcoming the decision of
Uzbekistan to open the borders
for refugees, but we are appealing to the government of Uzbekistan with a request
to restrain from armed
intervention, which might only aggravate the
situation. We are urging
the government of uzbekistan
to act in tight interaction with the UN, OSCE,
International Red Cross and other international structures.
We are urging the UN, OSCE and European Union to set up a an investigation commission and immediately send its respresentatives to the
region to collect and register the data on the massacre. This is necessary to counteract deliberate distortion of the facts and maniluation of information around
the events in the name of propaganda. Those guilty of the villainy, both organisers and executors, should be detected and brought to justice. Conditions should also be created both in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
for the work of humanitarian missions, to obtain and distribute assistance.
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