I have a friend from Kyrgstan. He's a good guy... I wonder if he's alright.

really dbj? did the president of Kyrgyzstan not fle to belarus in march? Do they not now have a provisional government, and are (Uzbek) supporters of the former president now being shot in the south of the country?

Did nepal have similar riots against the monarchy? maybe with less death, did Thailand have similar riots ("Eighty-eight people were killed and more than 1,000 injured during the long occupation of parts of the city by anti-government demonstrators")

And no it is not rascist to distinguish between two things which are different.

Israel runs a prison state (militrary commanders running palestine)

Darfur is more of a war from what i can see, rebels fighting government troops.

In the Case of Israel a stronger UN mandate would be needed to ensure previous UN limits on the border of Israel were enforced.

In the case of Darfur a peace deal is possible between the various factions, the peacekeepers could avoid shooting people while ensuring there is space for a dialogue.

So yes, I think Israel should be treated differently from the Government of Sudan, but Israel has acted differently from the Government of Sudan.

There were Kyrgyz demonstrators who were killed after the election in March. The people being killed now are not being killed because they are demonstrating - they are being killed because they are Uzbek. Period.

There is very little similarity between Kyrgyzstan and Nepal, but I fail to see the relevance regardless. Who cares if there is a similar conflict in Nepal? What has that got to do with justice or death or humanitarian concern for people being killed because of their ethnicity?

Why the focus for you on one conflict? Its not about the victims, you've made that clear. But because of who the oppressors are. Now why is that? Even granting you your suppositions in your post, why is the running of a prison so much more your focus than the government sanctioned killing of Darfurians, or the government sanctioned killing of Hutus and/or Tutsi's farther south. Why are the imprisoned Palestinians so much higher on your radar than the dead Darfurians or Tutsis or Hutus? Why do you pretend its because of humanitarian concern, for the plight of the oppressed? Because its not for you.

There are rumours that the riots were instigated by outside forces. People claimed to see people in ski masks claiming to be Uzbeks and start shooting Kyrgyzs; and then vice versa.

Ok... I've been doing a little bit of reaserch into this and have come up with one question I've not found a good answer to. The Kyrgyz are described as a predominantly muslim Turkic ethnic group. The Uzbeks, on the other hand, are described as a largely muslim Turkic people. What the bloody hell are they fighting about?!?

Source, smallpork?

@Octavious: I think it is tribal, not unlike Hutus & Tutsis in Rwanda, rather than religious (Darfur) or political (Nepal, Thailand).

The UN claimed the violence was orchestrated, but all I could find was a wikipedia page and yahoo article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100615/ap_on_re_as/as_kyrgyzstan
There are probably other sources, but I should be getting to sleep, so yeah.
BTW, the Darfur conflict is partly racial, as many of the Janjaweed militia and government backed forces are of Arab descent, and believe themselves superior to black Africans, whom are being killed. No one gives a shit about Africa.

Along the same lines as this threads general thinking...

Why has the Obama administration shown Palestinians in Gaza support but refused to so much as say a thing when Iran's streets were packed with protesters as a result of what most everyone in the world considered a fraudulent "election" in an essentially dictatorial country?

So a blockade of an area governed by terrorists is bad but repressive regimes calling for other nations to be wiped off the face of the Earth are cool? While the blockade isn't acceptable in my mind, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the danger posed by the Iranian regime - to it's citizens and (in the longer term) to the rest of the world.

(P.S.:under Hillary Clinton, the State Department has pointed out how the Iranian government is continuously moving toward being more of a military dictatorship)

@Largeham: "the Darfur conflict is partly racial", I know. My post is somewhat of a simplification. For example, the Thai protests have a hidden racial element in that many of the "urban elite" associated with the Government point of view are of Chinese descent whereas those in the countryside are generally not (and then throw in the Muslim separatists in the south ....).