(16 Jun 2010)
Yor Kishlok, 5 kilometres (3 miles) from Uzbek-Kyrgyz border
1. Wide of entrance to refugee camp
2. Wide of people in the camp
3. Mid of refugees registering
4. Pan of refugees in hangar
5. Mid shot old woman with child
Eastern Uzbekistan,10 kilometres (6 miles) from Uzbek-Kyrgyz border
6. Wide of refugee tent camp on territory of former Polymeric materials plant
7. Wide of women washing clothes near tents
8. Mid shot children and women sleeping inside tent
9. Wide of crowd of women talking near tents
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Feruza Makhmadyarova, Refugee from Osh:
"We begged at the border for Uzbeks to take us. We pleaded. Our men did not have guns or anything, they just sat there with sticks only and waited. And what next? Now I don't know how I am going to find my husband and my children there."
11. Mid of man giving out tea to women
12. Close up bread on the table
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Khafiza Eiganberdiyeva, Refugee from Osh:
"My house is not there anymore, it is burnt down. They came, took our car and burned it too. Where do we go now? Where do we go? I don't know."
14. Wide of camp
Uzbek-Kyrgyz border
15. Pan Uzbek-Kyrgyz border, shot from Uzbekistan side
16. Border guard walking across footbridge
17. People on the Kyrgyz side of the border, seen through barbed wire
18. Wide of Uzbek refugees near buses, waiting to cross the border to return to Osh
19. Mid of border guard reading names of refugees out loud
20. Close up girl holding baby
21. Wide of refugees walking towards border
STORYLINE:
Thousands of ethnic Uzbeks on Wednesday stayed in refugee camps in Uzbekistan, having escaped ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan that has driven much of the Uzbek population from the country's poor, rural south.
More than 100,000 Uzbeks have fled to the country, with tens of thousands more camped on the Kyrgyz side of the border.
Mostly women, children and elderly are holding up in the tents and barracks in camps quickly organised by local authorities.
There are about 46 refugee camps on the territory around the border with Kyrgyzstan, according to local authorities.
About 20-thousand refugees are staying in severe conditions at a camp near Yor Kishok, 5 kilometres (3 miles) from the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border and around 2-thousand others are taking shelter at camp situated on the territory of a former polymeric materials plant.
Refugees, some of which are still in shock, said on Wednesday they are afraid to go back to the city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan, which has been encircled by troops and where ethnic Uzbeks have been killed in the worst ethnic violence in decades.
The leader of Kyrgyzstan's Uzbek community said the death toll among Uzbeks exceeded 300.
The official toll on both sides is 189, although officials have acknowledged it is likely far higher.
Refugees say the attacks were unexpected and ethnic Uzbeks had to defend themselves with sticks and stones while Kyrgyz had guns.
"We begged at the border for Uzbeks to take us. We pleaded," said Khafiza Eiganberdiyeva, who escaped Osh and left her husband and children behind.
"Now I don't know how I am going to find my husband and my children there." she said.
Some of the women mourn their burnt houses, saying they don't have anywhere to return to.
"My house is not there anymore, it is burnt down. They came, took our car and burned it too. Where do we go now? Where do we go? I don't know," said 87-year-old Khafiza Eiganberdiyeva. She escaped from Osh on June 12 and hasn't heard from her children and grandchildren since then.
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