<P> The riots spread to neighboring areas, and the government declared a state of emergency in the entire southern Jalal - Abad region . To control the situation, the interim government gave special shoot - to - kill powers to the security forces . The Russian government decided to send a battalion to the country to protect Russian facilities . </P> <P> Otunbayeva accused the family of Bakiyev of "instigating the riots". AFP reported "a veil of smoke covering the whole city". Authorities in neighboring Uzbekistan said at least 30,000 Uzbeks had crossed the border to escape the riots . Osh became relatively calm on 14 June 2010, but Jalal - Abad witnessed sporadic incidents of arson . The entire region was still under a state of emergency as Uzbeks were reluctant to leave their houses for fear of attacks by the mobs . The United Nations decided to send an envoy to assess the situation . </P> <P> Temir Sariyev, deputy chief of the interim government, said there were local clashes and that it was not possible (for the government) to fully control the situation . He added that there were not sufficient security forces to contain the violence . Media agencies reported on 14 June 2010 that the Russian government was considering a request by the Kyrgyz government . An emergency meeting of Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) was held on the same day (14 June) to discuss the role it could play in helping to end the violence . Ethnic violence waned, according to the Kyrgyz government, by 15 June 2010 and Kyrgyz president Roza Otunbayeva held a news conference that day and declared that there was no need for Russia to send in troops to quell the violence . There were at least 170 people left dead by 15 June 2010 but Pascale Meige Wagner of the International Committee of the Red Cross said the (official) death toll was an underestimate . The UN High Commissioner told reporters in Geneva that evidence suggested that the violence seemed to have been staged up . Ethnic Uzbeks threatened to blow up an oil depot in Osh if they failed to get guarantees of protection . The United Nations said it believed that the attacks were "orchestrated, targeted and well - planned". Kyrgyz officials told the media that a person suspected to be behind the violence in Jalal - Abad had been detained . </P> <P> On 2 August 2010, a Kyrgyz government commission began investigating the causes of the clashes . Members of the National Commission, led by former parliament speaker Abdygany Erkebaev, met with people from the predominantly ethnic Uzbek villages of Mady, Shark, and Kyzyl - Kyshtak in the Kara - Suu district of Osh Oblast . This National Commission, including representatives of many ethnic groups, was established by a presidential decree . </P>

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