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Photo by: Alexander Zemlianichenko

Kyrgyz soldiers and volunteers check passing cars and search passengers for weapons at a checkpoint on the Uzbek side the border near the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Heavy arms fire rang out over Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the country's south, which has been thrust into chaos by days of deadly ethnic riots. The violence has prompted more than 100,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives to Uzbekistan, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side or stranded in a no man's land. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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