UN urges Kyrgyzstan to stop ethnic violence  Posted June 16,
2010 05:03:00  Refugees from Kyrgyzstan's vicious ethnic
bloodletting begged to be let into neighbouring Uzbekistan as
the United Nations urged Kyrgyz authorities to stamp out the
violence.  At least 176 people have been killed in Kyrgyz cities
near the Uzbek border in fierce fighting that began on June 10
and escalated into the deadliest clashes the impoverished
Central Asian state has seen in 20 years.  Tens of thousands of
Uzbek families have fled into Uzbekistan since last week but
Uzbekistan, struggling to accommodate the influx, closed the
border on Monday to all except those freshly wounded.  The
events have fuelled concern in Russia and the United States,
both of whom operate military air bases in the strategic but
volatile Muslim nation on China's western border.  A senior US
official told Reuters the violence appeared to have stopped
spreading, and street violence and gunfire that have
reverberated in the cities of Osh and Jalalabad for da