Mending fences and digging trenches: Tashkent isn't waiting for more instability in southern Kyrgyzstan to help control population movements in the Ferghana Valley. Here a hydraulic excavator digs a trench on the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan border in Aravan District of Osh Province. July 2, 2010.
David Trilling is Eurasianet’s managing editor.
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