Kyrgyzstan News » Batken News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Travel: The Summer Of 1999 And The IMU In Kyrgyzstan
Twenty years ago, militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) appeared in southern Kyrgyzstan and took several hostages while battling local forces. They were the biggest security ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Travel: Kyrgyzstan: Batken’s entrepreneurs struggle while officials weave lofty dreams
Adilet Adbuvaliyev’s industrial henhouse is perched on a scree-filled ledge above Kyrgyzstan’s most volatile spot. In the valley below, in a usually dormant corner of the Batken region, fighting ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Travel: Kyrgyzstan: A diary from Batken at a time of violence
Although Batken is a city on paper, you can count the number of streets on your fingers. In the past 20 years, only one new school has been built here, locals say. It is a small and sleepy corner of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Travel: Kyrgyzstan: Incident in Batken Highlights Cross-border Ethnic Tensions
Passions flew high in the southwestern Kyrgyz city of Batken last week after local residents took a group of Tajik citizens hostage in an attempt to force the release of three locals detained in ...