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People in Kyrgyzstan are still reeling from the violence earlier this month in the south of the country.

Fighting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks, which began in the city of Osh, left a reported 2,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uzbeks fleeing their homes.

The violence came in the run up to a constitutional referendum.

Alisher Khamidov is an ethnic Uzbek from Kyrgyzstan. He was returning home from studying in America to see his family in Osh, on the very day when the violence broke out.

He went from the airport to the nearby town of Aravan - which was peaceful - and began to frantically phone family members in Osh, including his uncle.

Alisher Khamidov spoke to Matthew Bannister from Aravan, in southern Kyrgyzstan.