By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Kyrgyz government forces swept into an ethnic Uzbek village Monday, beating men and women with rifle butts in an assault that left at least two dead and more than 20 wounded, witnesses told the Associated Press.
"In each house they would beat men and women with rifle butts," Ms. Umarova said. "Soldiers set my passport on fire; they said we would not need them anymore."
Madina Umarova, a 45-year-old resident of Nariman, said the troops wore brand-new uniforms and beat dozens of people, two of them to death.
