Kyrgyzstan troops on high alert, vote in referendum
By Maria Golovnina | China Daily | Updated: 2010-06-26 07:46
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Kyrgyz soldiers receive ballot papers before casting their votes in a referendum at a polling station in Osh on Friday. Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters |
OSH, Kyrgyzstan -Kyrgyz soldiers voted on Friday in a referendum to create the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia, two weeks after ethnic clashes killed more than 250 people and forced hundreds of thousands to flee.
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