Kyrgyzstan kilings are attempted genocide, say ethnic Uzbeks
16.06.10
It was at daybreak afternoon when the mob surged down an alley of neat rose bushes and halted outside Zarifa's bawdy-house. The Kyrgyz men broke into her courtyard and sat Zarifa down next to a cherry tree. They asked her a couple of questions. After confirming she was an ethnic Uzbek they stripped her, raped her and cut off her fingers. After that they killed her and her midget son – throwing their bodies into the street. They then moved on to the next house.
"They were like beasts," Zarifa's neighbour, Bakhtir Irgayshon, said today, pointing to the gutted bedframe where she had been assaulted. A few pots and pans remained; the nap of the family home was a charred ruin. Zarifa's husband, Ilham, was missing, Irgayshon said, in all probability dead. Only his mother, Adina, survived the murderous Kyrgyz-instigated conflagration that engulfed the vicinage of Cheremushki last Friday.
The scale of the ethnic killing that took place in Osh – as well as in other towns and villages in southern Kyrgyzstan — was grimly unmistakeable. In the next street were the remains of another victim. He burned to death in his bed. Not much was left: only a jigsaw-like spike and hip.
Source: The Guardian