What’s Ethnicity Got to Do With It?
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چکیده
Although it appears that opportunistic actors with political and economic motivations provoked the violence that erupted in southern Kyrgyzstan during June of this year, the scale, rapid spread, and vicious character of that violence belies a very real cultural divide between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in the country. Those who provoked the violence were obviously aware of the volatile nature of this divide, which had fostered a similar proliferation of ethnically based physical attacks, murders, and sexual violence in the same cities and towns only twenty years before. In dealing with the aftermath of the June 2010 violence, it is obviously important to identify who was behind the provocations that initiated this conflict, but it is equally critical to address the volatile ethnic relations that these provocations awoke. This is especially true now that the violence has at least temporarily subsided, and the policy priorities have shifted to healing the wounds from the conflict and mitigating future violence. In order to address the ethnic tensions that exploded in southern Kyrgyzstan between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, however, policymakers must gain a more sophisticated understanding of how ethnicity is internalized and expressed in the Central Asian context and what role ethnic identity played in this particular conflict.
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