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Both sides of the bloody crisis in Kyrgyzstan have pleaded with Russia to intervene as a third-party peacekeeper, following four days of ethnic violence that has rocked the Central Asian nation and threatened to create a serious refugee crisis. But at the end of an emergency meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russian-dominated alliance, no commitment to send in troops had materialized. Still, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev did hint that, if the situation worsened, he may take action. The situation in Kyrgyzstan is dire: Dysentery is rampant among children living in refugee camps, and thousands of gunshot victims are too afraid to come forward and seek medical care for their wounds.