{"id":3244,"date":"2011-09-27T08:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T08:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memorial.spb.ru\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2011-09-27T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T08:50:41","slug":"events-in-the-city-of-osh-in-2010-through-the-eyes-of-a-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/events-in-the-city-of-osh-in-2010-through-the-eyes-of-a-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Events in the city of Osh in 2010 through the eyes of a witness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Narrated by S., 15 years old<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPogroms in the city began in the morning of June 12, 2010. Even earlier, to be exact \u2013 about one o\u2019clock in the morning, after the big fight between the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz near the hotel \u201cAlai\u201d. As soon as I woke up, I saw my aunt running around in panic. She said that the war had started\u2026The war between the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. At that time, I was working as a construction worker, helping my brother, and was about to go to work.<\/em> But then it became clear that leaving the house was not a good idea. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It seemed that no one expected such events to occur. Before that, we all lived peacefully and suddenly, this happened. Even yesterday, we \u2013 Uzbeks and Kyrgyz \u2013 studied in the same school together, shared everything with each other. We went to school together for eight years. Everything occurred so quickly, as well as unnoticed. Some used to say that clashes between the races will break out, like in the 1990\u2019s, but no one believed it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bakiev, the president of the Republic, had abruptly raised the prices on electricity and communication services. The capital answered to that. For a week, Bishkek was seized by turmoil, however, it soon ended by itself. And now again, but in the entire country: Osh, Dzhalal-Abad.<\/span><\/p>\n

The morning that day was especially dreary. It\u2019s as if heavy, leaden clouds were hanging over the quiet houses. But the silence of the hidden city is so deceptive and fragile. It was broken by bursts of sub-machine gunfire and screams of the running people somewhere in the nearby quarters. The street was filled with black, foul smoke \u2013 the cars were burning. That same day, the school named after Hamza was set on fire, the Cheremushki district burned down \u2013 it was burned completely, to ashes. The market in the central district was burned down as well. This massacre began at the hotel \u201cAlai\u201d along the Gagarina street, through the Kyrgyzstan street past the Regional hospital. Such was its path. Burning houses, the killed and the wounded \u2013 all of this was on the streets, I don\u2019t know what for, and what from. All of this was happening as in a dream, a prolonged, dreadful dream.