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Credit: Reuters/Stringer SURATASH Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Erkin Saipedinov quickly learned the basics of surgery when he joined the tens of thousands fleeing ethnic bloodshed in the Kyrgyz city of Osh. World A doctor by profession, he now performs emergency operations in a mosque only yards (meters) from the border with Uzbekistan. Up to 300 people a day require medical treatment in squalid conditions. Disease is starting to spread among the refugees. "We have practically no medicine and the conditions are completely unsanitary," said Saipedinov. Behind a bedsheet, a young boy suffering from acute diarrhea was fixed to a drip. "And we don't have any psychological aid." Clashes between southern Kyrgyzstan's main ethnic groups, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, have killed at least 191 people since June 10. Some observers put the toll at nearer 1,000. Kyrgyzstan has been in turmoil since a revolt in April toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and brought an interim government to power. The killing has subsided in the last two days, but up to 100,000 people have fled their homes and set up camps in the Ferghana valley, where Kyrgyzstan borders Uzbekistan. A barbed wire fence patrolled by Uzbek troops divides the countries. Tens of thousands who crossed into Uzbekistan before the border was closed are housed in schools and rows of tents. On the Kyrgyz side, up to 100 people at a time are crammed into the clay houses and courtyards of ethnic Uzbeks. Many sleep rough on the arid ground. Refugees, some with weeping sores on their feet, queue for bread distributed from local stockpiles. The rules are strict: one loaf per family. Women, children and the elderly make up the majority of the refugees. Many were dressed in nightgowns. They boiled and drank clay-colored water drawn in buckets from a pool in the village. AUTONOMY Ilkham Akramov, 27, was selling textiles in the central market in Osh when an armed gang broke in and started shooting. "I was hit on the head with a hammer," he said. Blood seeped from beneath a bandage wrapped around his head. "When this war is over, I must return to my house because this is our land," said Akramov. Like almost all of the refugees in the villages along the border, he is an ethnic Uzbek. Among the crowds, groups of women demanded autonomy for the Uzbek population of southern Kyrgyzstan. "If we go back there now, they will cut our throats. We need Uzbek autonomy to survive," said Yulruz Kurbanova, 37, who fled Osh after armed gangs killed her niece and mother. Local men, who declined to be identified, said they were holding hostage several ethnic Kyrgyz captured between Osh and the border. They said they would release them in exchange for ethnic Uzbeks they believed were also being held. A Reuters reporter at the border did not see any hostages and could not independently verify these statements. Only a few international aid volunteers had arrived at the Kyrgyz side of the border, including a South Korean group. Local teenage volunteers in T-shirts and jeans, some with assault rifles slung over their shoulders, were patrolling the village. An Uzbek elder, wearing an embroidered skullcap, read a Muslim prayer. He said ethnic Uzbeks could not rely on aid from the Kyrgyz authorities. "We can only beg Allah for mercy." One sign of hope did arrive: four babies were born. SAVED BY THEIR SKIN Kurbanova said about 50 armed men broke into her house in Osh on June 12. She showed a Reuters reporter photographs of her dead niece and mother, taken earlier on her mobile phone. Her sister, 49-year-old Erkinai Umarova, bore wounds in her ear lobes. She said the attackers had ripped out her earrings. The two sisters only escaped, Umarova said, because the attackers mistook them for ethnic Tatars after stripping them naked. "They said: 'Look at their white bodies! They can't be Uzbeks' and let us go." A third sister, Nigora Tulanova, wept. It was her five-year-old daughter -- Kurbanova's niece -- whom a sniper had shot dead. "I don't know how I can go on living," she said. Mavlyuda Abdrakhmanova, 43, fled as her house burned down. "We no longer have any trust left for the Kyrgyz," she said. With the Uzbek border closed and their own homes destroyed, many of the refugees do not know where they will go next. "I believe that about 30 percent of people, those who have houses more or less intact, may return soon. Another 30 percent may return a little later," Saipedinov, the doctor, said. "The problem is the other 30 percent have nowhere to go." (Writing by Robin Paxton, editing by Paul Taylor) World Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. 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