By HULKAR ISAMOVA, Reuters OSH, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan will send reserve forces and volunteers to its troubled south on Sunday after a third night of gun battles took the death toll to 80 in the Central Asian state's worst ethnic violence in two decades. The interim government of Kyrgyzstan, an ex-Soviet republic hosting U.S. and Russian military bases, granted shoot-to-kill powers to its security forces after deadly riots between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad. The Interior Ministry said in a statement it would send a volunteer force to the south because the situation in Osh and Jalalabad regions...
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