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Uzbek asylum seekers

UN refugee agency urges Kyrgyzstan to stop security forces deporting Uzbeks

10 June 2005
Following the forced return of four Uzbek men who fled to Kyrgyzstan after last month's deadly crackdown in the town of Andijan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today urged the Kyrgyz Government to cease all further deportations of Uzbek asylum-seekers.
Uzbek asylum seekers await relocation

UN welcomes relocation of Uzbek refugees from border camp

7 June 2005
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed the relocation of Uzbek asylum-seekers further into the interior of Kyrgyzstan and away from a border camp in which they had been living since violence erupted in the Uzbek town of Andijan last month.