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Kyrgyz ‘leader’ visits troubled south (18 June)
Kyrgyz conflict an ‘immense crisis’ (17 June)
Kyrgyz violence level ‘alarming’ (16 June)
More evidence indicate Moscow’s organization of massacre in Kyrgyzstan (16 June)

With the near exclusive monopoly of the Russian media over reporting in Kyrgyzsatan, there are very few independent sources of information on the recent outbreak of violence in the country. This post presents 4 articles, based mainly on Al Jazeera and agencies’ reports, compiled by the Kavkaz [Caucasus] Centre in Chechnya.

The Kavkaz centre describes itself as follows:

Kavkaz Centre (www.kavkazcenter.com) is a Chechen internet agency which is independent, international and Islamic. Our agency was founded in March 1999 in Jokhar (Grozny) by the CRI National Centre for Strategic Research and Political Technology, registered with the CRI Ministry of Justice in October 1998 (N 1377/?-17).

The internet agency Kavkaz Centre provides reporting of events in the Islamic world, the Caucasus, and Russia. One of Kavkaz Centre’s chief objectives is to report events in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria connected to the Russian military aggression against the CRI. Besides we also provide international news agencies with news-letters, background information and assistance in making independent journalistic work in Caucasus.

Kavkaz Centre is a privately run, independent agency and does not represent the viewpoint of any state structures or the CRI government. The Kavkaz Centre agency makes it its mission to report real events in Ichkeria under conditions of a total information embargo and to disseminate to the world community the truth about the war, the war crimes, the evidence of genocide on the part of the state aggressor against the entire population and the positions of the side defending against aggression — the Chechen mujahedeen.

See also:

• BBC Blogs | World View: Kyrgyzstan violence
• Andrew E Kramer | New York Times | Tensions rooted in class, not ethnicity
• Jennifer Clibbon | CBC | Why is this happening now?
• Christian Bleuer | Registan | Kyrgyzstan violence: Conspiracies abound
• Bruce Pannier | RFE/RL | 10 things about the ethnic unrest in Kyrgyzstan
• Guardian | Kyrgyzstan: Mob rule in Osh
• International Crisis Group | Kyrgyzstan: A Hollow Regime Collapses

Jump to:
Kyrgyz ‘leader’ visits troubled south (18 June)
Kyrgyz conflict an ‘immense crisis’ (17 June)
Kyrgyz violence level ‘alarming’ (16 June)
More evidence indicate Moscow’s organization of massacre in Kyrgyzstan (16 June)