Several clashes between ethnic groups broke out in the wake of a political revolt on April 6 and 7, which resulted in the ouster of Kyrgyzstan's former president, Kurmanbek Bakiev.

NARIMAN, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyz government forces swept into an ethnic Uzbek village, beating men and women with rifle butts in an assault that left at least two dead and more than 20 wounded, ...

Tens of Thousands of Ethnic Uzbeks Have Fled Since Violence Broke ... She had left his body at their burned-down house in southern Kyrgyzstan while fleeing ethnic riots that reduced much of ...

Kyrgyz City Osh Rocked By Ethnic Violence In the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, ... If a Kyrgyz group comes, they send one of their Kyrgyz neighbors out to say please don't come in here.

What are the two groups fighting about? Money. Southern Kyrgyzstan is an economically depressed region, with an average annual income of less than half the national average of $2,150.

MOSCOW -- Deadly riots spread across southern Kyrgyzstan on Sunday as police with shoot-to-kill orders failed to stop the nation's worst ethnic violence in two decades and aid agencies reported ...

A prominent human rights group said Monday that Kyrgyzstan's armed forces abetted and may even have actively taken part in violence by ethnic Kyrgyz mobs against the minority Uzbek community tha ...

A Tashkent-based rights group says exiled leaders from Kyrgyzstan's Uzbek community should be part of the reconciliation process in the wake of last year's clashes between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in ...

Kyrgyzstan's current political situation is still marred by the shadows of corruption, ethnic injustice, and mistrust created by 2010's violence and the Soviet policies that helped fuel it. Start ...

There are slightly more than 200,000 ethnic Kyrgyz in China, so the number of "repatriates" to Kyrgyzstan is far lower than the number moving from China to Kazakhstan.

Controversial language legislation in Kyrgyzstan threatens to stir inter-ethnic tension in the Central Asian nation. Leaders of the country's Uzbek and Russian communities say the law denies them ...

* Fragile calm in Kyrgyz city ravaged by violence * U.S., Russia watch with unease * Some aid struggling to reach Osh residents (Adds Karimov-Ban telephone call) By Dmitry Solovyov OSH, Kyrgyzstan ...