Human rights groups have documented a pattern of reprisal and abuses against Kyrgyzstan’s Uzbek population nearly a year and a half after ethnic clashes ripped through the country.

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Signs of Official Bias and Abuse Deepen Kyrgyzstan’s Ethnic Rifts

The base has been a crucial supply hub for the war in Afghanistan since 2001 and is the only one of its kind in Central Asia.

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Kyrgyzstan Says United States’ Manas Air Base Will Close

Almazbek Atambayev, a former prime minister, was poised to become president of Kyrgyzstan by voters seeking an end to the ethnic and regional turmoil that erupted in violence last year.

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Kyrgyzstan Votes for President, Hopes for Peace

An official investigation in Kyrgyzstan into deadly ethnic clashes last year says local Uzbek leaders were to blame.

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Uzbeks ‘behind Kyrgyz violence’

Reports from Kyrgyzstan say four Islamist militants have been killed in a raid by special forces on a hide-out in the southern city of Osh.

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‘Militants killed’ in Kyrgyz raid

Seventeen ethnic Uzbeks are jailed for life for their role in June’s deadly ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan, amid accusations of bias.

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Uzbeks jailed over Kyrgyz clashes

Following the April revolution in Kyrgyzstan, the nation’s new political leaders were virtually unanimous in one criticism of the United States: “All they care about is that air base.” The charge was validated by the personal testimony of President Akayev’s ambassador to Washington, who negotiated the terms of the air base deal. The Americans used to raise issues of human rights and democracy with us, he wrote. But once the base was in place, that was it. White House advisor Michael McFaul has pushed back, insisting that Washington has always cared about a variety of issues, and that military concerns are only a piece of the agenda. . . .

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SCOTT HORTON—The White House, the Pentagon, and Central Asia

Nationalists have narrow lead in tight Kyrgyzstan elections, the first since 400 people died in inter-ethnic violence in June.

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Nationalists ahead in Kyrgyz poll

Voters in Kyrgyzstan are set to got to the polls in a landmark parliamentary election, the first since 400 people died in inter-ethnic violence.

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Kyrgyzstan on alert for election

The head of an international police mission due to deploy in violence-hit southern Kyrgyzstan holds talks in Bishkek, amid mounting opposition to the move.

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Talks held over Kyrgyz deployment