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KYRGYZSTAN / DISPLACED
STORY: KYRGYZSTAN / RETURNEES
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: UZBEK / ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 22, 23 JUNE 2010, JALALABAD, SEIDIKUM, BALTI KAZIK, KYRGZYSTAN
22 JUNE 2010, JALALABAD, KYRGZYSTAN
1. Various shots, destroyed houses
2. Wide shot, street with burnt structures and a woman passing by
2. Various shots, Hadyatillo Shamsuddinov and a young boy looking at her destroyed home
3. Med shot, women crying
5. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Hadyatillo Shamsuddinov:
"We are all staying in our neighbours’ house. There are 4 families, 14 people.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Firooza, displaced person:
"Our house is burnt. He is wearing his own (clothes). I am in a dress. My mother is in her dress. Our money were at the house, all our documents were at the house.”
23 JUNE 2010, SEIDIKUM, KYRGZYSTAN
7. Travelling shot, town
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Emek, refugee, translated by UNHCR field staff:
“They were shooting with snipers. We were lying in trash because we were hiding from snipers. I have nothing left, everything is gone, except the clothes we have on.”
23 JUNE 2010, BALTI KAZIK, KYRGZYSTAN
9. Various shots, people returning to Kyrgyzstan
10. SOUNDBITE Returnee (Uzbek):
“There is peace in our country that is why we are coming back. People told me. We are not sure. We are afraid and unsure. I am scared. I don’t know about my house.”
11. Various shots, families returning to Kyrgyzstan
12. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Returnee:
“They told us everything would be alright. That peace will again prevail. So we decided to return.”
13.Various shots, people on the move
Violence in mid June in southern Kyrgyzstan forced an estimated 400,000 people to flee their homes, some within country, others to Uzbekistan.
In the district of Tashbluk in Jalal Abad Kyrgyzstan, residents said that a group of men burnt the business and homes of over 400 people. They added that the attacks were directed at them because their ethnicity.
Most of the internally displaced are being sheltered by family and host communities.
Many families moved in with their neighbours. Their homes were destroyed.
SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Hadyatillo Shamsuddinov:
"We are all staying in our neighbours house. There are 4 families, 14 people.”
SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Firooza, displaced person:
"Our house is burnt. He is wearing his own (clothes). I am in a dress, my mother is in her dress. Our money were at the house, all our documents were at the house.”
On Tuesday hundreds of displaced gathered along the border area, of Serdikum, Kyrgyzstan.
SOUNDBITE (English) Asel Ormonova, UNHCR field staff (translates Emek’s description of the attack on her home days before):
“They were shooting with snipers. We were lying in trash because we were hiding from snipers. I have nothing left, everything is gone, except the clothes we have on.”
The Kyrgyz authorities are trying to restore law and order in the south, where they reported that some 180 people have been killed and 1,900 injured.
On Wednesday, at the Balti Kazik crossing, the government said nearly 5000 Uzbek refugees re-entered Kyrgyzstan.
SOUNDBITE Returnee (Uzbek):
“There is peace in our country that is why we are coming back. People told me. We are not sure. We are afraid and unsure. I am scared. I don’t know about my house.”
Some of the refugees explained that the Kyrgyz governor for the region urged them to return and guaranteed their safety.
SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Returnee:
“They told us everything would be alright. That peace will again prevail. So we decided to return.”
UNHCR underscores the importance of returnees having access to humanitarian help to reintegrate and that their return be voluntary.
Over the past week UNHCR has provided more than 300 tonnes of emergency assistance in a series of relief flights.
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