After bloodshed, Kyrgyzstan to vote on future

Kyrgyz voters will decide on Sunday whether to become Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy in a referendum that the country's interim leader says is crucial to restoring order after a wave of ethnic bloodshed.

More than 250 people were killed this month and hundreds of thousands fled violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic that hosts US and Russian military air bases and borders China. (AP)