A four-member team from the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on 15 June began a 10-day investigation of the 13 May violence in Uzbekistan, RFE/RL reported. Because Uzbekistan has rejected calls for an international investigation, the team will operate in Kyrgyzstan. \"They are going to be interviewing eyewitnesses and other people with firsthand knowledge of the events in Andijon in May,\" OHCHR spokesman Diaz told RFE/RL. The team\'s investigation will examine independent accounts indicating that hundreds of unarmed demonstrators were killed when Uzbek government forces opened fire on them on 13 May; Uzbek authorities insist that 173 people were killed in a clash between police and religious extremists. \"They [the team] are going to be reporting back upon their return to the high commissioner for human rights,\" Diaz said, according to the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks. \"That report is going to contain their findings and recommendations about how to take any investigative work forward.\" (RFE/RL)