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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan holds a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a risky gamble amid deadly ethnic tensions but one the interim government hopes will legitimize its power until new elections in October.
OSH, Kyrgyzstan - Investigators in southern Kyrgyzstan began exhuming the bodies of those killed during rampages against the Uzbek minority as tensions rose ahead of Sunday's constitutional referendum.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyz authorities said Friday they have arrested a nephew of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and charged him with helping organize the ethnic rioting that tore apart this Central Asian nation's south.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Prosecutors in Kyrgyzstan charged a human rights activist Saturday with inciting ethnic hatred for accusing the military of complicity in deadly violence that claimed hundreds of lives.
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