Well ! As they have formed the backbone of Ghenkis Khan and Tamerland armies which ravaged and destroyed most of Europe .. may be now they have got their " returns ". Veni,vidi,vici

@Giulio Cesar. What a barbaric, antiquated point of view. Punished for the sins of the father? No, let's go back several centuries further. I can see why some people disagree with Darwin. Et tu Brute?

Can somebody explain who these two groups are & why they are fighting? They are both Muslim, yes? What are their differences?

These two ethnic groups are speaking similar languages and look much alike to a foreigner. However, they are of different origin (to put it simple - Uzbeks are peasants, and Kyrgyz are shepherds). Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Tadjiks, etc. are living in that area together for a long while and for I have seen - they get along very well with each other. The slaughter in Osh and the near territories is not an ethnic conflict between neighbors! These people living there are not even that violent. They would never kill pregnant women and burn down whole districts with the people living in it. What happens in Kyrgyzstan now is INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND ORGANIZED CRIME FUNDED BY DRUG MONEY. Please understand that! ... most of those poor people have a hard time to earn money to feed their children, and all they have is their homes and households... None of those local people would buy machine guns and go on to destroy their whole community...

Thanks, Gena, for your comment. I really appreciate there are people understanding the situation and trying to bring the right message to people. I do agree with you that this fight is not based on ethnicity, neither on religion. I am personally kyrgyz and have nothing against uzbeks. I've got lots of uzbek, kazakh, tadjik friends. And i know that these people are peaceful and friendly. What is killing people now is the lack of information that people could rely on to. They only get the message that the other side has killed one of theirs. Of course, they get angry.. But if they knew those who started are hired men, they'd stop the fight among each other, and consentrate on the third party.

There are a lot of people of different nationalities in Kyrgyzstan. Now when the situation is difficult there're people who are interested and want to make situation more unstable. It's not conflict between kyrgyz and uzbek, who've been living in peace and harmony for years, it's dirty politics and terrorists games.

To attribute the organized disorder, with trained snipers and foreign mercenaries, to "international terrorism and organized crime" is exactly what American policy-makers, their undercover agencies and international media want. Destabilizing Kyrgyzstan is part of the dedicated effort by the US-NATO-international community to seize control of Central Asia and permanently threaten both Russia and China. Remember: the CIA sees Shinjian and Tibet as independent countries. The balkanization of Russia is also part of their hidden agenda!

Thank all of you for the clarifications...From what I understand so far everybody here thinks this a repeat of what happened in Yugoslavia & Georgia. The subversive groups are CIA trained mercenaries like the NATO military contractor MPRI financed by drug money. They are hoping to provoke a civil war between the Uzbeks & Kyrgyz so that NATO can occupy the Kyrgystan....Is this correct? Wow! That's crazy! If average Americans realized this we'd go berserk! NATO has got one war going in Afganistan already & occupation troops in former-Yugoslavia & Iraq. All of these actions are sucking our economy dry and killing our people! I can't believe Obama would tolerate this insanity.. Do you have any proof of this?