UNHCR chief visits southern Kyrgyzstan, says further help needed
UN refugee chief António Guterres cautions that many thousands of people are still displaced in Kyrgyzstan
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, June 30 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today visited southern Kyrgyzstan and appealed to the international community not to turn its attentions away from the tens of thousands of people still faced with having to rebuild lives and overcome trauma following the violence there in mid-June.
Speaking to journalists at a site for returned refugees and other displaced people in the town of Osh, Guterres spoke of the difficulties for those left homeless or living in fear of further unrest.
"The world was taken by surprise with Kyrgyzstan, we must not be taken by surprise again," he said. "Entire communities here have been left fractured and embittered. Immediate and sustained humanitarian help is needed to avert a dangerous expansion of grievance and loss."
Since mid June, and with some tens of thousands of people having been displaced inside Kyrgyzstan as well as across the border into Uzbekistan, UNHCR has rushed hundreds of tonnes of emergency relief into the two countries in a series of massive air shipments from Dubai.
With refugees having since returned to Kyrgyzstan the focus of help has now shifted to the displaced populations in and around Osh and nearby Jalalabad.
On Wednesday in Osh, High Commissioner Guterres received the first convoy of some 20 trucks at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border carrying UN aid materials into Kyrgyzstan from Uzbekistan, where they are no longer needed.
Guterres has been visiting Kyrgyzstan to see for himself the conditions on the ground for the many thousands of people who have been displaced by the violence. As well as traveling to Osh on Wednesday he met government officials including President Roza Otunbayeva. On Thursday he's expected to visit other towns in the south.
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UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2006 - Annex
15 Jan 2008 ... ... R Osh region 159 10% 8% 13% 31% 61% 8% 44% 31% 43% 40% 44% 42% .. 43% 159 100% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Bishkek 2,906 6% 9% 17% 32% 65% 3% 70% 52% 45% 52% 35% 50% 48% 47% 2,906 25% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Osh 188 ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2010: Statistical Annex
Dec 2011 ... ... Kyrgyzstan R Dispersed Osh: Oblast - Region 6,627 7% 17% 9% 32% 42% 26% 56% 55% 52% 54% 64% 47% .. 57% 6,627 100% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Dispersed Osh: Point 1,380 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 57% ...... -
2002 UNHCR population statistics (provisional)
4 Aug 2003 ... ... Chui region - - 5,445 5,445 Issyk-Kul - - 16 16 Osh and Djelalabad region - - 854 854 KGZ Total - ... 5,445 - - - - - 5,445 Issyk-Kul 16 - - - - - 16 Osh and Djelalabad region 854 - - - - - 854 URB ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2009 - Annex
Oct 2010 ... ... R Osh 7’385 7% 16% 9% 33% 43% 25% 56% 54% 57% 56% 62% 49% .. 57% 100% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Bishkek 2’014 7% 12% 12% 32% 66% 2% 54% 54% 54% 54% 35% 32% 47% 45% 38% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Osh 1’589 ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2011: Statistical Annexes
8 Apr 2013 ... ... 55% 100% 100% Kyrgyzstan R Individual accomm. Osh: Oblast - Region 8,900 4% 12% 6% 22% 51% 27% 55% ... Kyrgyzstan U Individual accomm. Osh: Point 703 0% 1% 1% 2% 65% 33% 100% 57% 20% 53% 54% 56% .. 54% ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2012: Statistical Annexes
10 Dec 2013 ... ... Kyrgyzstan R Individual accomm. Osh: Oblast - Region 4,465 9% 25% 12% 46% 37% 17% 55% 58% 52% 56% ... Osh City: Shaar - City 720 0% 1% 0% 2% 63% 36% 67% 57% 33% 54% 63% 57% .. 60% 100% 100% Kyrgyzstan V ...... -
2003 Global Refugee Trends: Overview of refugee populations, new arrivals, durable solutions, asylum seekers and other persons of concern to UNHCR
15 Jun 2004 ... ... 0% 100% Kyrgyzstan D Chui region 3,934 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 46% 46% 0% 100% Kyrgyzstan D Osh 394 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 46% 46% 0% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Bishkek City 1,591 .. .. .. .. .. ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2007 - Annex
31 Dec 2008 ... ... U Bishkek city 5% 9% 15% 29% 69% 3% 60% 54% 46% 51% 32% 45% 48% 45% 2,868 28% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Osh city 14% 24% 10% 48% 51% 1% 43% 42% 60% 46% 46% 0% 46% 46% 229 43% 100% Kyrgyzstan V Batken region ...... -
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2008 - Annex
31 Dec 2009 ... ... Kyrgyzstan R Osh region 4,396 12% 27% 16% 55% 40% 5% 56% 54% 57% 56% 69% 38% .. 60% 100% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Bishkek 2,916 7% 13% 13% 33% 64% 2% 53% 46% 50% 49% 34% 38% 48% 46% 29% 100% Kyrgyzstan U Osh ......