Long-awaited, an international report into ethnic clashes that rocked southern Kyrgyzstan last June has not been well received. The independent Kyrgyz Inquiry Commission (kic) was tasked with investigating bloodshed between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in which around 470 died. The government agrees with some findings but strongly disagrees with others. Whereas ethnic Kyrgyz accuse the report of one-sid-edness, ethnic Uzbeks-who accounted for three-quarters of the casualties and nine-tenths of the property losses-object to the commission's conclusion that the killing did not qualify as genocide.
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