This week in Kyrgyzstan...

I haven't followed the events in Southern Kyrgyzstan at all since last Monday, as I have been very, very sick. Was in the ER on Tuesday and at my doctor's office on Friday, and still don't feel so hot. Some kind of less than pleasant viral infection. Blech.

I'm just now sitting down at my laptop in an attempt to figure out what's happened since I last read the news. It seems that the rioting has stopped. Some ethnic Uzbeks are returning to what remains of their former lives - while many ethnic Uzbeks refuse to leave Uzbekistan or the Uzbek/Kyrgyz border.

Allegations continue to spread that former President Bakiyev and his son, Maksim, were responsible for instigating the violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan - including a telephone call in which Maksim allegedly instructs someone to round up 500 Kyrgyz men willing to commit atrocities. Additionally, Maksim has fled to the UK and is seeking assylum. Boooo.

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