Ethnic Conflicts


BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - A prominent rights groups says Kyrgyzstan's armed forces abetted and may even have actively taken part in deadly violence by ethnic Kyrgyz mobs against the minority Uzbek community.

MIR ALI, Pakistan - Intelligence officials say suspected US missiles have killed 12 people in a Pakistan tribal region along the Afghan border.

QUETTA, Pakistan - Gunmen targeted non-ethnic Baluchis traveling on a bus and painting a house in two attacks in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing 16 people and wounding eight, police said.

GENEVA - The United Nations says it has received reports of torture and other atrocities by Kyrgyzstan forces against ethnic Uzbeks in the Central Asian nation.

BEIJING - A commercial jet flying from a western China region wracked by ethnic tensions made an emergency landing after receiving a bomb threat that turned out to be fake, a police official and state media said Thursday.
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