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Post by sarmat on Jun 20, 2010 4:30:42 GMT 3
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Post by abdulhay on Jun 22, 2010 15:42:22 GMT 3
what happend now, are they still fighting
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Post by kenmirzz on Jun 23, 2010 4:25:32 GMT 3
According to my Kyrgyz friends, the situation is calming down a bit, but the casualties reached to 2000 lives, it's sad though.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jun 23, 2010 22:38:26 GMT 3
Seems like the "Nomads vs Sedentaries" dualism is still pretty much alive.
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Post by sarmat on Jun 24, 2010 0:43:10 GMT 3
Yes, this is, actually, very true. In fact, during the conflice as I understood from reading from some Uzbek and Kyrgyz forums and blogs, Kyrgyz didn't even call Uzbeks as Uzbeks. They continue to call them "Sart" which used to be the name of the sedentary population in the central Asia before the Russian conquest. And it has a kind of deragatory flavor when used by Kazakhs and Kyrgyzes.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jun 25, 2010 0:19:52 GMT 3
Yes, it means "Merchant" and I guess it has this "greedy" meaning as well.
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Post by tangriberdi on Aug 20, 2010 1:21:27 GMT 3
Although I have no available proof or direct evidence, the conflict sounds provoked by outsiders-without doubt, me thinks. I really wonder what are the political outcomes of such a serious conflict for Russians, the Chinese and Americans. It can be said that the very fraternity between two Turkic peoples are seriously damaged, which requires us to be sceptical about whether it will be better again. That's not good.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Aug 20, 2010 18:55:23 GMT 3
Such conflicts are normal if political borders are placed not accordingly with the ethnical situation of such regions. The areas where the conflicts happened are largely Uzbek areas which were given to Kyrgyzstan during the Soviet period.
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