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'Political mismanagement' in Kyrgyzstan

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The UN Refugee Agency is launching an emergency airlift of supplies to Kyrgyzstan to help ease the crisis there.

Shirin Akiner, a fellow at Cambridge University, explains the ethnic background to the conflict.


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