Kyrgyz Riot Police Authorized to Kill

Kyrgyzstan's interim government has given police and military forces shoot-to-kill orders in an extreme measure taken to halt the ethnic unrest in the south of the country.

A government decree on Saturday authorized lethal force to repel attacks against the authorities, stop the destruction of government and private property, and protect civilians, AFP reported.

The Kyrgyz government also partially mobilized the country's military forces as the ethnically divided former Soviet republic is faced with mounting violence between Uzbek and Kyrgyz groups.'

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