About the only groups that have not had blame heaped upon them for the bloody riots and ethnic upheaval that has thrown southern Kyrgyzstan into chaos in the past two weeks are the non-government organizations (NGOs) and civil society groups that have proliferated since the country's independence from the old Soviet Union in 1991. But there is good reason to think that the more than 9,000 registered NGOs and civil society groups in Kyrgyzstan, almost all of them foreign-funded, have played a...
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