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"When we learned that there was a claim out on our field, we urgently evacuated women and children from the village," said Alik Aliyev, an ethnic Meskhetian Turk inhabitant of Mayevka.
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The mood was tense Tuesday in Mayevka village, outside Bishkek, a day after hundreds of young ethnic Kyrgyz men armed with sticks and metal bars beat residents while burning houses and cars.
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Hundreds of squatters assembled for a rally Tuesday morning a short distance from Mayevka, demanding the release of jailed rioters and that they be allocated land.
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Mayevka is populated largely by Meskhetian Turks, descendants of an ethnic group deported from Soviet Georgia in 1944.
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Around 600 police supported by armoured personnel carriers were patrolling Mayevka, an interior ministry source told AFP late Monday.
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Hundreds of police patrolled the village of Mayevka outside the capital Bishkek, a day after it was the site of clashes in which ethnic Kyrgyz rioters sought to seize plots of land from ethnic Russians and Turks.
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The village of Mayevka, to the north of Bishkek, bore the brunt of the violence on Monday, with rioters burning buildings, throwing rocks at villagers 'houses and pillaging private property.
RIA Novosti 2010
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Police have detained 130 people involved in the Mayevka riots, the Kyrgyz interior ministry said in a statement.
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The village of Mayevka, to the north of Bishkek, bore the brunt of the violence on Monday, with rioters burning buildings, throwing rocks at villagers 'houses and pillaging private property.
RIA Novosti 2010
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Mayevka is home to a mix of Russians, Kyrgyz and Meskhetian Turks, a group that lived in Georgia until 1944 when they were deported to Central Asia by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
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