From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 09:46:57 EDT
KYRGYZSTAN SUMS UP CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISLAMIC MILITANTS
General Bolot Djanuzakov, who is secretary of the Kyrgyz
Security Council, said in Bishkek on 9 October that a total
of 30 Kyrgyz troops were killed during the fighting against
militants from the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in
August-September, Reuters and Interfax reported. He estimated
the Islamists' losses at 120 dead and 200 injured. Djanuzakov
added that no new attacks by those forces have been
registered for the past 15 days but did not exclude the
possibility that some militants remain on Kyrgyz territory.
On 7 October, Kyrgyz police in Batken Oblast arrested a 60-
year-old Kyrgyz who confessed to providing the militants with
information about Kyrgyz troop movements, Interfax reported.
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