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Kyrgyz soldiers and volunteers check passing cars and search passengers for weapons as they control a checkpoint on the Uzbek side of the border on the outskirts of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Heavy arms fire rang out over the Kyrgyz city of Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the country's south, which has been thrust into chaos by days of deadly ethnic riots. The violence has prompted more than 100,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives to Uzbekistan, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side or stranded in a no man's land. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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A Kyrgyz Army volunteer checks the trunk of passing car during a search for weapons as an ethnic Uzbek family look on at a checkpoint on the Uzbek side of the border near Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Heavy arms fire rang out over Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the country's south, which has been thrust into chaos by days of deadly ethnic riots. The violence has prompted more than 100,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives to Uzbekistan, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side or stranded in a no man's land. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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A Kyrgyz soldier (left) searches a passenger for weapons at a checkpoint on the Uzbek side of the border on the outskirts of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Heavy arms fire rang out over Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the country's south, which has been thrust into chaos by days of deadly ethnic riots. The violence has prompted more than 100,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives to Uzbekistan, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side or stranded in a no man's land. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Kyrgyz soldiers and volunteers check passing cars and search passengers for weapons at a checkpoint on the Uzbek side the border near the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Heavy arms fire rang out over Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the country's south, which has been thrust into chaos by days of deadly ethnic riots. The violence has prompted more than 100,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives to Uzbekistan, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side or stranded in a no man's land. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Uzbek men prepare to bury a victim of ethnic rioting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Ethnic rioting has killed at least several hundred people, or roughly double official figures, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the rioting in Kyrgyzstan was started deliberately. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Uzbek men pray during a funeral for victims of ethnic rioting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. The official death count from the past week of violence rose to 189 on Wednesday, with 1,910 wounded, the Health Ministry said. Kyrgyzstan is observing three days of mourning for the victims of the recent mass-scale riots in the republic's southern regions. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Demonstrating against Israel's closure of Gaza, Palestinians, some with national flags, stage a weekly protest near the Israeli border (background) in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday June 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Kyrgyz military vehicles roll through the central square of the southern city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Rioting has killed at least several hundred people in this Central Asian nation, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the violence was ignited deliberately to undermine the interim government. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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In the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Uzbek men mourn on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, during the funeral of a victim of ethnic rioting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks. Rioting has killed at least several hundred people, or roughly double official figures, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the rioting in Kyrgyzstan was started deliberately. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Uzbeks who fled Kyrgyzstan live in a refugee camp on the border at the Uzbek village of Erkishlok on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Many thousands of refugees have fled the pogrom that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)

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Uzbek men dig graves in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, in preparation for burying victims who died during ethnic rioting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks. The rioting has killed at least several hundred people, or roughly double official figures, the Red Cross said Tuesday as new reports strengthened suspicions that the rioting in Kyrgyzstan was started deliberately. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Uzbek men pray in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, during the funeral of a victim of ethnic rioting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks. The rioting has killed at least several hundred people, or roughly double official figures, the Red Cross said Tuesday as new reports strengthened suspicions that the rioting in Kyrgyzstan was started deliberately. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Kurgunbai Inambayev, a Uzbek, is seen in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Mr. Inambayev said the bruises on his face were inflicted by Kyrgyz attackers during days of ethnic rioting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks. The rioting has killed at least several hundred people, or roughly double official figures, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the rioting in Kyrgyzstan was started deliberately. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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** FILE ** This photo provided by the Baltimore Police Department on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, shows Calvin Lockner. Lockner faces charges including armed carjacking and armed robbery in the beating of James Privott last August while the victim was fishing in a south Baltimore park. (AP Photo/Baltimore Police Department, File)

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A Romanian woman holds up her bloodied hand after being injured in scuffles with riot police outside the parliament building, during protests in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanians scuffle with riot police outside the parliament building in Bucharest during protests Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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John Kelly, the brother of Michael Kelly who was shot dead on Bloody Sunday 1972 reacts after leaving the Guildhall in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June, 15, 2010. Relatives of 13 Irish demonstrators shot to death by British troops on Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday celebrate the publication of a fact-finding report into the 1972 atrocity _ in which soldiers shot unarmed, often fleeing civilians in the back.British Prime Minister David Cameron has apologized on behalf of his country for the slaughter of 13 Catholic demonstrators in the Northern Ireland town of Londonderry, an outrage that became known as "Bloody Sunday." (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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John Kelly, the brother of Michael Kelly, who was shot dead on Bloody Sunday in 1972, reacts with relatives o fother victims, after leaving the Guildhall in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June, 15, 2010. Relatives of 13 Irish demonstrators shot to death by British troops on Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday celebrated the publication of a fact-finding report into the 1972 atrocity - in which soldiers shot unarmed, often fleeing civilians in the back. More than 1,000 residents tearfully welcome the 12-year conclusions of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, beamed live on a massive TV screen in front of Londonderry's city hall, as British Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for "unjustifiable" killings - some 38 years after an initial British probe branded the dead as gunmen and bombers. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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Relatives comfort each other as Kay Duddy, brother of Jackie Duddy, who was shot dead on Bloody Sunday, talks with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin Mc Guinness (right) in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June, 15, 2010. Relatives and family members of the dead made their way to the Guildhall to receive a preview of the Saville Report, which details the British government's findings from the investigation into Bloody Sunday, the 1972 killing of 13 Catholic demonstrators by British troops. The probe began in 1998 and became the most expensive in British legal history as it gathered evidence from 2,500 witnesses, including troops who opened fire that day. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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Megan Bradley, 3, great-niece of Jim Wray, gathers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, with other relatives of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday in 1972. The British government is releasing the long-awaited Saville Report, which investigated Bloody Sunday, on which 13 Catholic demonstrators were killed by British troops. The investigation began in 1998 and became the most expensive in British legal history as it gathered evidence from 2,500 witnesses, including troops who opened fire that day. (AP Photo/Paul Faith/PA Wire)