Aid agencies in Kyrgyzstan face challenges

Thousands of people are trying to escape fighing between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgz in southern Kyrgyzstan, but many remain trapped at the border with Uzbekistan.

To hear more about the challenges of getting aid into the country, Al Jazeera spoke to Pepijin Trapman
from the Inter-Church Organisation for Development Co-operation, a group of Christian aid agencies working in Central Asia.

Speaking from the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, he said his organisation and others were struggling to get basic aid such as food, water, shelter and medicine into the country.

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[bonuhon]

KYRGYZ mobs are slaughtering Uzbek children and UZBEK pregnant women, hanging UZBEK babies alive, gang raping little UZBEK girls then burning them alive, kyrgyz military supporting them, kyrgyz youngsters are torching uzbek properties. uzbek men are unarmed and being brutally killed by kyrgyzs.

[bonuhon]

when trucks with humanitarian aid arrives, they're surrounded by looters, the same people attacking uzbek people and burglarizing, vandalizing, demolishing, torching uzbek people homes. Uzbeks desperately need help. They can't go out, they're hiding in cold, small, dark below the ground shelters. There are thousands of infants, children, pregnant woman and elderly among them... their homes being torched, cars have been destroyed.

[bonuhon]

there are some videos available where you can clearly see kyrgyz people wearing military uniforms eating humanitarian aid food, the same people killing innocent uzbek people. The humanitarian aid sent to south of Kyrgyzstan, Osh, is sold to Russian in need; but wounded Uzbek children, women are not getting any medicines or essentials like food or water. They're even not admitted to kyrgyz hospitals.

[Tchyngyz]

I am sadden of what is happening in Kyrgyzstan.

[grubelsucht]

Everywhere two disparate groups exist there is disharmony and periodic violence due to ethnic gangsters. Other countries have gangster governments. Democracy fails in those places. Is the solution many small countries for each ethnic group? After historical forces coalesced smaller into larger countries, now the trend is to break into smaller countries, of which the world has numerous recent examples.