 RFE/RL Central Asia Report 8/18/2010 5:58:12 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the five countries of Central Asia. For more stories on Central Asia, please visit and bookmark our Central Asia page . |
 Visits Promised After Kazakh Prison Riot Dozens of relatives of inmates at a Kazakh prison hit by a riot last week have been promised they will be allowed to visit the facility. More  Kyrgyzstan Closes Uzbek University The private Friendship of the Peoples University in the southern Kyrgyz city of Jalal-Abad has been closed. More  West Concerned About Tajik University Western diplomats in Tajikistan have expressed concern over the fate of the country's only private university. More  Kazakh Businessman Missing A well-known Kazakh businessman has been missing for three days. More  When Water Dries Up, The Donkey Market Booms As the result of slow repairs to a derelict 40-year-old water-supply system, many residents of the Tajik city of Kulob are living without running water in their homes, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports. More  Kyrgyz Officials Challenge HRW Report Members of a Kyrgyz National Commission investigating the deadly ethnic clashes in the southern regions of Osh and Jalal-Abad in June have challenged the findings of a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on the unrest between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz. More  IMU Announces Longtime Leader Dead, Names Successor The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has announced that its leader, Tahir Yuldash, was killed nearly a year ago. The IMU also announced that it had selected a new leader, Usman Odil. More  HRW: Kyrgyz Government Partly Responsible For June Violence In a new report, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) finds that some Kyrgyz government forces helped facilitate attacks on ethnic Uzbek neighborhoods in the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June. The group also criticizes the government for "lacking the will" to conduct a thorough and fair investigation into the clashes. More  Former Kyrgyz Governor Killed Authorities in Kyrgyzstan are seeking the killers of the former governor of Naryn Province, Tynchtykbek Chekiev. More  Can iPhone's Peaks, Pitfalls Predict Kyrgyzstan's Future? Will Kyrgyzstan's new government go the way of the previous one, which was driven from power by protests that turned violent in April? One theory concerning the popular acceptance of technology could provide a clue. More  Ak-Shumkar Wastes No Time In Kyrgyzstan's Parliamentary Race No sooner had Kyrgyzstan officially announced the date for parliamentary elections on August 10 than Temir Sariev, the head of the Ak-Shumkar (White Falcon) party, was already laying out his party's platform. More Kazakh authorities now say at least one prisoner was killed and more than 80 others injured in a riot at a prison in northern Kazakhstan. More |
