Two weeks after about 100,000 ethnic Uzbeks fled from southern Kyrgyzstan to neighbouring Uzbekistan to escape deadly clashes with ethnic Kyrgyz, tens of thousands are returning. Some 46,000 people had crossed the Uzbekistan-Kyr-gyzstan border by June 23rd, according to Kyrgyzstan's border service. More are expected to do so in the coming days.rnThis will relieve one of the greatest humanitarian crises to hit the former Soviet Union since its break-up. Uzbekistan's government is being praised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (unhcr) for its "extraordinary" co-operation in handling this deluge of refugees-overwhelmingly women and children.
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