Life In Osh, 10 Years After Kyrgyzstan's Deadly Ethnic Conflict​

A decade has passed since ethnic violence tore through towns and cities in southern Kyrgyzstan, killing 470 people according to an international report. RFE/RL talked with ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz people in Osh, the city where the violence started, to get a sense of how people feel about life today and about the events of June 2010.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/a/life-in-osh-1...

[@hallitoff3883]

This was sad to watch. When I was in Osh in 1996 I heard the same words of regret, of people chagrined and chastened by the bloody ethnic fighting which had taken place in 1990. There seemed to be such determination that it had been a terrible mistake which they would never allow to be repeated. Yet, twenty years later...

[@mahmudjonkuchkarov3469]

Tinchlik bolsin, Qirg'iz, O'zbek tug'ishganlar!

[@mdsihabkhan1099]

Please music name, you music was very nice....

[@awsomemodels]

Beautiful city !

[@cookiemasta1658]

Why the heck Uzbek guy and old-man talking Kyrgyz language? Cant you see Kyrgyzs still repress Uzbeks?!

[@ijan8611]

Maybe because the person who was interviewing spoke to him in Kyrgyz first or maybe the Uzbek guy didn't speak Russian and the interviewer didn't speak Uzbek so the language they both speak is Kyrgyz. I cannot deny that some Kyrgyz people are being nationalist and stuff. It's really ugly and should change. But, at the same time, the official languages in this country are Russian and Kyrgyz. And, personally, I think as a citizen people should speak either one of those languages. As a Kyrgyz myself I realize the flaws in out society but I understood these things later in my life. Because growing up near Bishkek, where my neighbors are 100% native Kyrgyz, I never was bullied or targeted because of my ethnicity. Even in Bishkek.

[@ijan8611]

I'm okay if the Kyrgyzstan citizen speaks me in Russian. I don't care if the person doesn't know Kyrgyz. If people respect the country and it's laws and can fluently speak either Russian or Kyrgyz - its enough for me. Cuz growing up in North, spending most of my time in Bishkek, I don't hear Uzbek language everyday and I don't understand it. Yet if the person would deliberately speak Uzbek to me, knowing Russian, even though I can't understand - I would be mad. If you live in Canada or any other bilingual country they would teach you both languages and it would depend which language you use more on which area you live right? The same with guy speaking Kyrgyz. I'm not saying don't learn Uzbek or any other language. I'm just saying, if every nation start to speak their language and demand everything to be in their language it will be a chaos. We have 2 languages either of them is okay for me. Some people in Bishkek just speak Russian and people would understand them in Tokmok and in Batken. But person speaking Uzbek will be understood by South region unfortunately

[@ijan8611]

And also about repression: these aren't Chinese concentration camps. Those people have rights to move and leave the country if they want as well as claim Uzbek citizenship if they hate living in Kyrgyzstan. Just saying. Nobody is keeping them shut somewhere. And nobody wants another war. So...

[@cookiemasta1658]

@@ijan8611 No! I know what im speaking about since im living in Osh. Its everywhere! And you Kyrgyzs understand Uzbek very well!

[@cookiemasta1658]

@@ijan8611 «people speaking Uzbek will be understood by South(Kyrgyzs) region unfortunatelly» ???? unfortunatelly?? well thank you for showing your Nazi position!

[@abuhuzaifanematov1442]

Azattyk don't put this kinda video you're reminding sad days and you making conflicts again this place is full ofpeace and love