State Of Emergency Lifted in Kirghizia
A state of emergency declared after ethnic violence flared in the Central Asian republic of Kirghizia in June has been lifted, Tass reported Wednesday.
The official Soviet news agency said the state of emergency “accomplished its task” and conditions in the republic had stabilized.
The clampdown was imposed on June 7, along with a curfew in the capital of Frunze and the town of Osh, about 200 miles to the south, where fighting between ethnic Kirghiz and Uzbeks claimed more than 210 lives.
The two ethnic groups, both largely Sunni Muslims who speak Turkic dialects, are engaged in a dispute over the allocation of land plots for building private houses.
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