the uzbek authorities. ethnic uzbeks. they live in southern kyrgystan. fled across the border to uzbekistan. the majority are uzbeks. complicated, ethnic divisions across this region. i think what is interesting about looking at the people in this camp is that there are women and children. there are no men amongst them. a few around. some with quite severe injuries. they have been shot, cut with knives. the vast majority of the people in this camp and all the other camps along the border, more than 100,000 people in, are women and children who have escaped the fighting and in fear for their lives. they left their men folk, their husbands, brothers and sons back in southern kyrgystan. there is a time to protect what property and little property they have in many cases from what they describe as rampaging gan gangs, backed by the security borders. matthew, so many people are looking at the situation there
but she saw it on tv and she e-mailed and she said, there is nothing i can do in texas. i feel so helpless. what can i do to help these people and these poor women waiting for their men folk? so she came up with the idea that one of the miner s wives, her partner had proposed to her in a letter for a catholic wedding so donna in texas said, i know what i can do, i m a seamstress so i m going to make her the most beautiful wedding dress. she s now in that process. on top of that she goes down to the church every night and lights 33 candles. i think that s just a good example of how people went beyond the reality tv, this kind of morbid, voi you ueristic approaches. i don t know what yours were.