{"id":921,"date":"2010-06-28T22:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T05:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2010-07-18T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T13:53:12","slug":"kyrgyzstan-votes-yes-amid-death-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan Votes &#8220;Yes&#8221; Amid Death, Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_922\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_1.jpg\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-922\" class=\"size-full wp-image-922  \" title=\"DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_1\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elderly Uzbek man votes at Mikhail Frunze school #24 in Sunday&#39;s referendum on the future of the interim government in Kyrgyzstan. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Osh-<\/strong> I have a new piece in today&#8217;s edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Front_Page.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Asia Times<\/strong><\/a> titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/atimes.com\/atimes\/Central_Asia\/LF29Ag01.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrgyzstan Votes &#8220;Yes&#8221; Amid Death, Fear<\/a>&#8221; on Sunday&#8217;s quietly successful referedum vote here in southern Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s deadly ethnic jigsaw puzzle here in the Ferghana valley.\u00a0\u00a0Secuirty was heavy here in the country&#8217;s troubled, second largest city and there were no incidents that I know of but that may be because people here are exhausted more than anything.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_923\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-923\" class=\"size-full wp-image-923 \" title=\"DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_5\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_5.jpg 720w, http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DHFlood_Kyrgyzstan_Vote_5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kyrgyz soldier inspects vehicles in the destroyed Uzbek section of Osh&#39;s central market. 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