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KYRGYZSTAN / ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
STORY: KYRGYZSTAN / ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
TRT: 2.10
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: UZBEK / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 3 JUNE 2011, JALALABAD TOWN, SOUTH OF KYRGYZSTAN / FILE
3 JUNE 2011, JALALABAD TOWN, SOUTH OF KYRGYZSTAN
1. Various shots, Saliya walking in the street entering her court yard
2. Various shots, kids are coming, greeting her
FILE / AUGUST 2010, JALALABAD TOWN, SOUTH OF KYRGYZSTAN
3. Various shots, Saliya’s shows the basement where she hide with her grandchildren
4. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Saliya:“We used to keep food here. We did not run away. We stayed here, in the basement. I’ve got small children. We could not escape.”5. Med shot, destroyed house and ruins
6. Various shots, Saliya walking the tent type living area
7. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Saliya:“All our belongings were burnt, nothing left. Whatever we have now, we got it from people. Food was provided as aid, clothes, everything was provided as aid.”8. Close up, UNHCR sign
9. Pan left, from ruins of old home to new house built by UNHCR last year
3 JUNE 2011, JALALABAD TOWN, SOUTH OF KYRGYZSTAN
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahir Salarli, Head office in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, UNHCR:
“One year one UNHCR is helping communities and authorities to restore and rebuild trust and confidence. And this is vital for the stabilizing the situation here.”
5. Various shots, Saliya pouring tea and giving bread to her grandchildren
6. SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Saliya:
“Let it be peace. With peace, we will have everything. With peace we will have food on the table. Life will be good and everything will be fine.”
7. Wide shot, grandchildren walking into the yard
A year ago, Saliya came face to face with her own survival. When violence erupted in the southern area of Kyrgyzstan hundreds of thousands were displaced, and 400 people died.
Some fled inside the country others to Uzbekistan. Saliya did not manage to escape.
She and her family hid in the basement of her house. They spent three days there. Above them they could hear shooting.
SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Saliya:“We used to keep food here. We did not run away. We stayed here, in the basement. I’ve got small children. We could not escape.”
Her house was looted and burnt. She prayed that her family would not be killed.
After the violence, her grandchildren moved to Russia. She stayed behind.
SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Saliya:“All our belongings were burnt, nothing left. Whatever we have now, we got it from people. Food was provided as aid, clothes, everything was provided as aid.”
Saliya lived in a tent for 4 months. Then she moved into a 2 room house constructed by UNHCR, and with that her grandchild moved back.
All the families who lost their homes, over 13,000 people, received the same.
It helped restore calm to the region.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mahir Salarli, Head office in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, UNHCR:
“One year one UNHCR is helping communities and authorities to restore and rebuild trust and confidence. And this is vital for the stabilizing the situation here.”
The ruins of Saliya’s old home are still there a reminder of what she and her family lived through.
The future must be more peaceful, she says.
SOUNDBITE (Uzbek) Saliya:
“Let it be peace. With peace, we will have everything. With peace we will have food on the table. Life will be good and everything will be fine.”
Economic and inter-ethnic problems still pose a threat to peace, but the chance to return and rebuild has given hope to thousands displaced by the conflict of a year ago.
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