The Kyrgyz interim government has issued a decree allowing the Defense Ministry to call up reservists aged under 50 to stabilize the situation in southern Kyrgyzstan hit by recent riots, the ministry's press office said on Sunday.
The mobilization is aimed at ensuring the security of citizens and protecting the constitutional order in the south of Kyrgyzstan to normalize the situation as quickly as possible and restore law and order, the press office said.
Ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan has claimed the lives of at least 82 people, leaving over 1,076 injured, the Kyrgyz news agency AKIpress cited the latest report by the country's health ministry on Sunday.
Deadly ethnic riots swept through the country's second-largest city of Osh and another southern city of Jalalabad on Friday and Saturday.
Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek groups set ablaze cars, crushed the stores and markets as well as the residential houses. The looters have been rampaging through the streets during the days of rioting.
At least 614 people have been hospitalized and another 383 received ambulatory treatment. Six severely injured Kyrgyz citizens have been transported to hospitals in Moscow by a Russian emergencies ministry's cargo plane.
Kyrgyz interim government allowed police and the troops to shoot to kill in order to quench the riots and stop marauders.
The humanitarian situation in southern Kyrgyzstan remains complicated as most of the businesses have been closed down and the residents started to feel shortages of food and medical supplies.
Officials from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are set to gather on Monday to discuss the ways to resolve the crisis in Kyrgyzstan, including possible deployment of a peacekeeping contingent to the violence-hit Kyrgyzstan.
CSTO, a post-Soviet security bloc, comprises Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
BISHKEK, June 13 (RIA Novosti)
