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Sunday, 22 May 2005

KYRGYZSTAN HANDS 84 REFUGEES OVER TO UZBEKISTAN

Published in News Digest

By empty (5/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Kyrgyz border guards have handed 84 refugees over to the Uzbek authorities, a Kyrgyz law enforcement source told Interfax on Sunday. \"Eighty-four Uzbek citizens, who illegally crossed into Kyrgyzstan, have been handed over to the Uzbek authorities from May 13 to 22,\" the source said. He also said that Kyrgyz border guards have handed 26 Kyrgyz citizens of Uzbek origin, who were in the temporary residence center in Suzak district in Dzhalal-Abad region, over to the Osh regional national security department.
Kyrgyz border guards have handed 84 refugees over to the Uzbek authorities, a Kyrgyz law enforcement source told Interfax on Sunday. \"Eighty-four Uzbek citizens, who illegally crossed into Kyrgyzstan, have been handed over to the Uzbek authorities from May 13 to 22,\" the source said. He also said that Kyrgyz border guards have handed 26 Kyrgyz citizens of Uzbek origin, who were in the temporary residence center in Suzak district in Dzhalal-Abad region, over to the Osh regional national security department. \"Following identification procedures they will be transferred to their relatives residing in the Osh region,\" the source said. \"The situation on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek stretch of the border is relatively quiet,\" he said. But a new wave of tensions is being anticipated on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border near the Kyrgyz town of Kara-Suu, bordering on the Uzbek towns of Kara-Suv and Ilyichevsk, where, according to some sources, organizers of the May 14 disturbances are still being detained and arrested. Checkpoints are being removed in the Uzbek city of Andizhan, but the curfew is still in force and the military are patrolling the streets. (Interfax)
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