Woman "Our girls have been raped, the boys injured with sharp weapons, they poured kerosene into the houses, then burnt them to the ground. What can we do? What can we save? Where can we go?" Uzbeks constitute about 15% of the population of Kyrgyzstan and live mostly in the south of this former Soviet republic in Central Asia. Many residents of Osh accuse government forces of helping the armed gangs to commit the massacres. Reports say there’s been no sign of Kyrgyz military or police in the ethnic Uzbek sectors of the city.