uzbeks

The Uzbeks have won a total of three gold, three silver and five bronze medals from three Summer Olympics in which it had competed.

An Uzbek cameraman has footage of an armoured personnel-carrier going through a crowd of agitated Kyrgyz men as it approaches some Uzbeks.

Street-fighting in Osh, the largest city in southern Kyrgyzstan, between ethnic Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks escalated rapidly into a pogrom.

Uzbeks, thousands of whom were made destitute by the violence, were reported to be especially affected.

There was fighting in Jalalabad, the other major city of the south; our correspondent sheltered with Uzbeks in a university courtyard.

Babur struggled on in Central Asia for a while, but was crushed between Uzbeks, Mongols and Timurid princes.

but, with Uzbeks and Timurids threatening all around, it had its advantages.

The cause of the rampage involving Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks, which began in Osh, Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city, remains unclear.

The latest victims of his legacy are the Uzbeks of Kyrgyzstan.

Uzbeks use their mobiles only rarely in public, because the police might be listening.

Uzbeks, less than 15% of the population, live mainly in the south and are under-represented in public life.

Uzbeks comprise perhaps 15% of the country's population, a plurality among the minorities.

Many ethnic Uzbeks, mostly women, children, and the elderly, have fled the city to the nearby border with Uzbekistan, looking for safety.

Uzbeks are among the most orthodox of the Central Asian peoples.

When the trouble started, thousands of Uzbeks fled to the Uzbekistan border, just three miles from Osh.

But many Uzbeks claim the security forces are using that as a pretext to extort money from residents.

Ethnic Kyrgyz say the Uzbeks started the violence, and that Kyrgyz were killed in pogroms, too.

Whatever the cause, the fighting between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks has been ferocious.

Whatever the cause, the fighting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks has been ferocious.

the apartment blocks they wish to build (with foreign aid) will force Kyrgyz and Uzbeks to mix.

American experts suspected that the attackers included Chechens and Uzbeks operating under the IMU 's umbrella.

This Kyrgyz resident of Osh admitted they'd burnt down restaurants and cafes owned by ethnic Uzbeks.

Osh is erecting monuments to celebrate "Kyrgyzness" , though Uzbeks make up about half the city's population.

But the model depends partly on a large number of young Uzbeks living outside the country and sending money home.

The Tajiks were successively ruled by Uzbeks and then Afghans until claimed by Russia in the 1860s.

Some 45, 000 Uzbeks have registered as refugees in neighbouring Uzbek-majority Uzbekistan.

In 1990 about 300 people were killed in unrest between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the south.

Most of Kyrgyzstan's Uzbeks, who make up about 15% of its 5. 4m people, live in the south, along with some Tajiks.