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Kyrgyzstan's Ethnic Violence Through Graffiti


A compelling photo essay from Neweurasia.net today about graffiti in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, which saw the outbreak of ethnic violence in June:

Contested narratives of the conflict, its causes, and the history of ethnicities in Southern Kyrgyzstan have deepened divides between the two groups since violence broke out for the second time in twenty years. The walls tell this story.

-- Luke Allnutt

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