Why the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks Hate Each Other
We're going to be hearing a lot more about this, so here's a to-the-point summary:
www.slate.com/id/2256919/
Oh, the Kyrgyz hate the Turks, too:
Russian houses were also attacked but on a much smaller scale.
Some Russian landowners, knowing that the gangs were targeting mainly Turks, had scrawled "Russians here" on the gates of their houses.
Kyrgyzstan's Meskhetian Turks are originally from ex-Soviet Georgia, but were deported to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1944, when he also moved the entire Chechen and Ingush people from southern Russia.>
www.slate.com/id/2256919/
Oh, the Kyrgyz hate the Turks, too:
Russian houses were also attacked but on a much smaller scale.
Some Russian landowners, knowing that the gangs were targeting mainly Turks, had scrawled "Russians here" on the gates of their houses.
Kyrgyzstan's Meskhetian Turks are originally from ex-Soviet Georgia, but were deported to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1944, when he also moved the entire Chechen and Ingush people from southern Russia.>