There are no exact figures on the scale of ethnic unrest that has hit southern Kyrgyzstan. They are lost in the chaos of what happened. No one is even certain why the violence erupted.
Official casualty figures are contradictory and considerably lower than unofficial estimates. All that is known is that many people are dead and as many as 100,000 refugees, perhaps more, have been forced to abandon their homes in Osh and Jalalabad and other towns.
The United States and United Nations have condemned the violence in Kyrgyzstan. So, too, has Russia. But the international community has not responded to official and unofficial Kyrgyz requests for military assistance to stop the bloodshed.
In Moscow, a member of the local Uzbek community, Sherzad Rakhmanov, cited the need for urgent outside help. He spoke at the Kyrgyz Embassy.
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