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    Kyrgyz soldiers are alert atop an armored personal carrier patrolling the outskirts of the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, June 17, 2010, with a humanitarian convoy behind the truck. Hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks fled their homes seeking refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan after deadly rampages by mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Local citizens seen through a bus window as they leave the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh for the airport in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks fled their homes seeking refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan after deadly rampages by mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Local children seen through a bus window as they leave the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh for the airport in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks fled their homes seeking refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan after deadly rampages by mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Ethnic Uzbek citizens listen to the head of local police, Col. Kursan Asanov, back to camera, during negotiations with local people in the Uzbek district of the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan onn Thursday, June 17, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks fled their homes seeking refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan after deadly rampages by mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Kyrgyz soldiers and volunteers check passing cars and search passengers for weapons at a check point on the Uzbek border side on the outskirts of the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Heavy arms fire rang out over the Kyrgyz city of 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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    Kyrgyz army volunteers are on alert in the back of a truck patrolling the outskirts of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, 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 of the border or stranded in a no man's land. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)


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    Kyrgyz army soldiers and volunteers climb up on their military truck to patrol the outskirts of 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. (Associated Press)


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    Kyrgyz soldiers and volunteers check passing cars and search passengers for weapons as they control a checkpoint on the Uzbek side of the border on the outskirts of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Heavy arms fire rang out over the Kyrgyz city of 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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    A Kyrgyz Army volunteer checks the trunk of passing car during a search for weapons as an ethnic Uzbek family look on at a checkpoint on the Uzbek side of the border near Osh, Kyrgyzstan, 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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