Live from my TV screen: CNN International interviews Red Cross (ICRC) representative Roland Vavre in Tashkent - he has been in Andijan but did not have anything to say about a body count there. At one point he dodged a question about casualties in Andijan by saying, "[ICRC] is concentrating on its humanitarian mission." They "always refrain from commenting publicly" about such things, apparently.
On the situation in Kara-suu, he mentioned that the rebuilding of the bridge between the Kyrgyz and Uzbek portions of the city was most important to the locals, so that they could resume their traditional cross-border trade - "Their main concern is to do business as usual."
So, nothing new, really, but at least CNN is still treating this like what it is - an important story in which key facts are still not yet known.
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Sorta what I figured. That makes good sense.
Sort of like the Peace Corps' vow to never be involved with US intelligence agencies, not that it kept them from getting kicked out of Russia.
Maybe all of the Peace Corps volunteers' blogs were making Patrushev suspicious...I'm kidding, but only partially.
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