On the Kyrgyzstan problem.

A comment from J-Practical:

I sense something’s missing. The report tells us that 400,000 are refugees and over 189 killed by militia. The violence is between the majority Kyrgyz population and minority ethnic Uzbeks.

According to the CIA World Factbook, the populations look like this:
Kyrgyzstan: Muslim 75%, Russian Orthodox 20%, other 5%
Uzbekistan: Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%

Muslims and others are dying, being dispossessed, and are involved in murder and violence against the minorities.

So where are the riots in the streets in Turkey (and other Muslim states), denouncing the terrorism and violence against civilians?

Where are the riots and demonstration in the streets of other countries?

Where are the threats of retaliatory violence from Imams, and their public denouncements of such violent behaviours against civilians?

Where are the strongly worded condemnations from world leaders?

Where are the UN General Assembly and Human Right Council debates, special emergency meetings, and resolutions where other countries denounce this heinous crime and compare it to the worst massacres of the 19th and 20th centuries?

Where are the demands for an international commission of inquiry?

Why are Ban Ki Moon and Navi Pillay silent?

Ooops. Sorry. Wrong population group. My mistake.


So 9 people died after instigating violence against soldiers. They’d been amply warned and given the choice to take a peaceful route. But they chose violence. And that dominates the news and the action item agenda of the UN.

189 dead, 400,000 refugees in Kyrgyzstan, apparently, we can ignore. And so can the Muslim world. Because Israel is such a big deal.

“We’ll make the world abandon reason”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Yd3aOj55E

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/17/kyrgyzstan-uzbek-refugees.html#socialcomments#ixzz0r8d3cKwP