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Saturday, 30 December 2006
13 UZBEK REFUGEES RETURN HOME FROM UKRAINE
By empty (12/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A group of 13 Uzbek refugees who fled their homeland after the May 2005 unrest in Andijon have returned home from Ukraine even though they received approval for relocation to Sweden, according to a source in Uzbek law enforcement. Their return brings to 66 the number of Uzbek refugees who have gone home. A total of 439 Uzbek asylum seekers were airlifted out of Kyrgyzstan in 2005.
A group of 13 Uzbek refugees who fled their homeland after the May 2005 unrest in Andijon
have returned home from Ukraine even though they received approval for relocation to Sweden, according to a source in Uzbek law enforcement. Their return brings to 66 the number of Uzbek refugees who have gone home. A total of 439 Uzbek asylum seekers were airlifted out of Kyrgyzstan in 2005. (Interfax)