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| | IRIN Asia | Asia | Central Asia | CENTRAL ASIA: Focus on conflict prevention in Ferghana Valley | Conflict | Feature |
 | | BATKEN, 22 July 2004 (IRIN) - Men, women and children from Too Moyun village in Osh province, southern Kyrgyzstan, sweat in the baking summer heat to complete the walls of a school in time for the new term in the autumn. |
 | | They are building the school because the village, along with hundreds of others in the volatile region, suffers from accidents of history, geography and politics - most of its meagre resources now lie in the neighbouring state of Uzbekistan, just across a barbed wire fence, but for the villagers, a world away. |
 | | What a disruption, and for what?" the deputy governor of Batken province, Tokto Ilimbezova, told IRIN as she waited in the heat for a border guard to return her passport as she returned from a regional meeting in Osh. |
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