Kyrgyzstan increases troops, authorizes killing rioters; death toll climbs to 100
Sunday, June 13, 2010 - 11:41
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Central Asian country, wracked by ethnic rioting in the south, mobilizes hundreds of reservists as the violence spreads. In a desperate bid to stop ethnic violence in the south of Kyrgyzstan from spreading, the interim government of the former Soviet republic in Central Asia declared partial mobilization of reservists and issued an unprecedented decree authorizing soldiers to shoot to kill rioters. The...