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    Election officials prepare a polling station in a village just outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyzstan's central government pledged to help ethnic Uzbeks vote in a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, encouraging participation by a minority group that has supported the interim administration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Election officials prepare a polling station in a village just outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyzstan's central government pledged to help ethnic Uzbeks vote in a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, encouraging participation by a minority group that has supported the interim administration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Ethnic Uzbek gatther to attend a Friday prayer in a mosque in Jalal-Abad southern Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Uzbek neighborhoods of southern Kyrgyzstan have been reduced to scorched ruins by rampaging mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz who forced nearly half of the region's roughly 800,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)


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    Ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz citizens pray together during a Friday prayer outside a mosque at Uzbek ethnic neighbourhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama said the two had also agreed to coordinate on humanitarian aid for Kyrgyzstan, wracked by turmoil in the wake of the president's ouster. Kyrgyzstan's president was driven from power in April amid corruption allegations, sparking violence that has left about 2,000 people dead and 400,000 ethnic Uzbeks homeless. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz citizens pray together during Friday prayers at a mosque in the Uzbek ethnic neighborhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. 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. Hundreds of people were killed and as many as 400,000 driven from their homes this month when Kyrgyz mobs rampaged through Uzbek neighborhoods in and around the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Kyrgyz soldiers receive their ballot papers at a polling station as early voting is held for Sunday's referendum in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyz authorities say they have arrested a nephew of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev whom they accuse of playing a key role in organizing the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds of people. This month's unrest tore apart the Central Asian nation's south, with Kyrgyz rampaging through Uzbek neighborhoods. As many as 400,000 people fled their homes.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)


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    Kyrgyz soldiers receive their ballot papers at a polling station as early voting is held for Sunday's referendum in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyz authorities say they have arrested a nephew of deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev whom they accuse of playing a key role in organizing the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds of people. This month's unrest tore apart the Central Asian nation's south, with Kyrgyz rampaging through Uzbek neighborhoods. As many as 400,000 people fled their homes.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)


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    Kyrgyz soldiers fill their ballot papers at a polling station as early voting is held for Sunday's referendum in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)


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    In this image made available by the Press Service of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry, ministry forces conduct house-to-house searches in an Uzbek area in the village of Nariman on the edge of the main southern city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Monday, June 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Press Service of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry, Pool)


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