The mass and rapid return of up to 70,000 ethnic Uzbek refugees to Kyrgyzstan from Uzbekistan has brought a new set of challenges for the Red Cross Red Crescent. Up to 300,000 people left their homes earlier this month in the wake of inter-ethnic clashes that left hundreds of people dead and thousands more wounded, mainly in and around Osh, the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan.
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies