International Crisis Group 29 March 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Kyrgyzstan’s government has failed to calm ethnic tensions in the south, which continue to grow since the 2010 violence, largely because of the state’s neglect and southern leaders’ anti-Uzbek policies. Osh, the country’s second city, where more than 420 people died in ethnic clashes in [...]
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Homophobia Endemic in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
Institute for War and Peace reporting, via RefWorld 2 February 2012. When Alisher’s father discovered his son was gay, he beat him with an army belt, kept him at home for a month, then sent him from Tajikistan to a religious college in Iran to “knock the nonsense out of him”. It did not end [...]
