"Let me see... the minority group, who supported the president persuaded by the US to let the US use bases in the country are being killed by the majority group- and CarolC says it is the US causing this?"

I'm sure I don't understand this atall !

A probably corrupt president was ousted by 'popular protest' in April in a country with an ethnic mix of approximately 69% Kyrgyz, a Turkic people, and 14.5% Uzbeks mainly living in the south - the two groups are roughly equal in the Osh and Jalalabad regions.


The Uzbeks were NOT supporters of the Bakiyev regime although the south of the country was the main power base of former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, deposed by a popular revolt and where supporters of Bakiyev, now in exile, briefly seized government buildings in the south on May 13, defying Otunbayeva's central authorities in Bishkek


Kadyrzhan Batyrov, head of the Uzbek community in Jalalabad said after the president had fled

"I know one thing: that Bakiyev and his brothers want to gather their supporters and stage a rebellion so that there is a split between north and south. He will not succeed,"


Although there is a previous history of ethnic unrest in the country,
the leader of the interim government, Otunbayeva, has accused supporters of Bakiyev -- like her, an ethnic Kyrgyz -- of stoking the current violence to disrupt her government's plans to hold a national referendum on June 27 to vote on changes to the constitution.

The neighbouring Uzbek Foreign Ministry expressed "great concern" about the events in Osh, saying there were "reasons to conclude that such events are organized, managed and provocational."

The current administration also claim the attacks on the Uzbeks were orchestrated and funded by the ex president and/or his son, currently under arreat in the UK