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A massive earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has claimed 60 lives in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.
The destruction is sure to put the impoverished Central Asian nation on the map, even as large sections of the country are removed from that map.
Kyrgyz in and around the quake zone are desperately short of water, food and vowels.
Living in tiny, landlocked, backward Kyrgyzstan has always been like living under a rock. It’s just that now it’s like living under hundreds of tonnes of rock.
The quake occurred near the town of Nura, on the Kyrgyz-Chinese border. China immediately blamed the disaster on Xinjiang-based terrorists and vowed to crack down harder on a range of imaginary separatist groups.
