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A Kyrgyz youth hired by French NGO ACTED white washing anti-Uzbek graffiti as UNHCR head Antonio Guterres is about to tough down at Osh airport. Within seconds of taking this photo I was detained by a Kyrgyz militiaman for doing journalism without accreditation and ejected from the Kyrgyz Republic. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

Abu Dhabi- <\/strong>Yesterday, I appeared on Voice of America’s<\/a> Russian language news service talking about my experiences and observations in southern Kyrgyzstan before and after the June 27 referendum on the country’s future. I was interviewed by my Jamestown colleague Erica Marat<\/a> who works for VoA to comment on a Human Rights Watch<\/a> report released yesterday entitled, “Kyrgyzstan: Torture, Detentions Escalate Tensions<\/a>.” Here is the link to the VoA article (in Russian), “Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies involved in the torture of ethnic Uzbeks<\/a>” and here in English<\/a> using Google’s imperfect translate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abu Dhabi- Yesterday, I appeared on Voice of America’s Russian language news service talking about my experiences and observations in southern Kyrgyzstan before and after the June 27 referendum on the country’s future. I was interviewed by my Jamestown colleague…<\/p>\n

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