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Daughter of Uzbek leader’s fashion show canceled

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

Family members, including the youngest, clean silkworm cocoons in Kokand, Uzbekistan, in June 2009. The silkworm business is a state monopoly, and farmers facing fines or the loss of land leases if they miss quotas need the whole family to work. (Associated Press)

Smooth as silk? Not for Uzbekistan farm kids

By Mansur Mirovalev - Associated Press

Uzbek women accuse state of sterilizations

By Mansur Mirovalev - Associated Press

SIEFF: What went wrong in Kyrgyzstan - and what to do about it

By Martin Sieff - The Washington Times

Kyrgyz soldiers conduct a foot patrol in Suratash, Kyrgyzstan. Soldiers tried to reassure refugees it was safe to return home, but many refused to go. (Associated Press)

Ethnic Uzbeks refuse to return to Kyrgyzstan

By Sergei Grits and Raul Gallego-Abellon - Associated Press

U.S. envoy urges action on Kyrgyz riots

By Romain Goguelin and Yuras Karmanau and - Associated Press

Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home

By Peter Leonard and - Associated Press

Kyrgyz leader says 2,000 dead in clashes

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

U.N.: 400,000 now uprooted by Kyrgyzstan unrest

By Sergei Grits - Associated Press

Kyrgyz army tries to get control in riot-hit south

By Sergei Grits - Associated Press

Kyrgyzstan military seeks control in Osh

By Sergei Grits - Associated Press

A Uzbek woman who fled the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh cries as she waits for permission to cross the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border into Uzbekistan on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Uzbekistan closed the border Tuesday, leaving many camped out on the Kyrgyz side or stranded behind barbed-wire fences in no man's land. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Red Cross: ‘Several hundred’ dead in Kyrgyz unrest

By Sergei Grits and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

100,000 Uzbeks flee riots in Kyrgyzstan

By Sasha Merkushev - Associated Press

Group lacks seat for U.S.