Osh , Uzbekistan ( CNN ) -- The acting president of Kyrgyzstan said when it comes to the recent ethnic clashes in her country , she would multiply the official death toll by 10 , according to the Russian news website Kommersant . Roza Otunbayeva told Kommersant that many deaths in the countryside were not part of the official total of yet , which the Kyrgyz news agency Kabar places at 191 , according to the Kyrgyz Health Care Ministry . In a separate interview in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh , the interim president called for reconciliation between the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks . `` By all means , we have to give hope that we shall restore the city , return all the refugees and create all conditions for that . I think the entire world will be helping us , because we two peoples have the goodwill to live in peace and friendship together , '' Otunbayeva said . A U.S. official on Friday called for a `` substantial '' investigation into the killings . Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake was at a refugee camp near the border in Uzbekistan , where thousands of ethnic Uzbeks fled violence in neighboring Kyrgyzstan . Blake said he wants Kyrgyzstan authorities to investigate who carried out the attacks on ethnic Uzbeks and to bring those responsible to justice . He planned to go to the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek later Friday to deliver the message personally , he said . Blake praised the Uzbek government for working to support the refugees who have flooded into their country . About 120,000 have crossed the border into Uzbekistan , far more than officials had been expecting . The Obama administration is committed to assisting the Uzbek government with supplies and other aid , Blake said at the camp near Yor Kishlok , where refugees were living in rows of tents . While countries and nongovernmental organizations are sending aid to the region , Otunbayeva 's assistant , Azimbek Beknazarov , said in a news release Friday morning that if England does n't extradite Maksim Bakiev , the son of deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev , then the Kyrgyz government will consider `` closing the Manas airbase . '' However , the interim government representative , Temir Sariev , told CNN that , `` This is only Mr. Beknazarov 's opinion and , so far , the interim government is not sharing this opinion . '' In a statement released by London-based attorneys , Maksim Bakiev said , `` I have been forced into exile in fear for my life . The interim government in Kyrgyzstan accuses me of new crimes every day . The charges are bogus , to divert attention from their own crimes . They accuse me before there has been any opportunity for an investigation . Clearly they seek to try to make me a scapegoat for the chaos in the country . I view events in my homeland with horror and pray for an end to the violence . '' Refugees were telling stories about the violence that began last week , describing houses and businesses burned by rampaging militias , bodies in the streets and how their relatives had been killed . Video and witness accounts were starting to emerge Friday that units of the Kyrgyz military may have been taking part in the violence . Refugees on both sides of the border said they are frightened by the Kyrgyz military . Ethnic violence has displaced about 300,000 people inside Kyrgyzstan , The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Thursday , citing information from the Kyrgyz interim government and nongovernmental organizations . Some relief for those refugees is imminent . The UN refugee agency said Friday it will begin airlifting supplies into Kyrgyzstan this weekend . UNHCR plans to send two cargo planes to Osh with enough assistance to help about 15,000 people , with one arriving Saturday and the other Sunday . Families and host communities were sheltering many of them , but at least 40,000 people were in need of shelter , according to the UNHCR . U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a `` flash appeal '' for $ 71 million , seeking immediate funding for food , shelter , medical supplies and other emergency aid as part of the response to the crisis . The violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan has calmed down after it erupted late last week . The UNHCR said in addition to the dozens of deaths , around 1,900 have been wounded . The agency said the situation in Osh and nearby villages `` appears to be volatile , '' and conditions in Jalal-Abad are tense . Many families have left Osh and Jalal-Abad for Bishkek and other areas . The flood of refugees into Uzbekistan has strained the country 's health care and food sectors , and several dozen female refugees crossed the border pregnant and have given birth , the United Nations said . China , which borders Kyrgyzstan on the east , said Thursday it had removed 1,299 Chinese nationals , the state-run news agency Xinhua said . The clashes in Kyrgyzstan , which started last week , were part of the most serious outbreak of ethnic violence in the former Soviet republic since 1990 , when hundreds of people died in skirmishes between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in Osh . The United Nations and several countries , including the United States , Germany and Russia , have sent aid to the region . Francois Blancy , deputy head of the Red Cross regional office in Uzbekistan , said more aid is needed . `` We are now at the peak of the humanitarian crisis , '' Blancy said Thursday . CNN 's Matthew Chance contributed to this report .
US : UN chief of appeal for $ 71 million in aid . Interim Kyrgyz government rep . shoots down suggestion that airbase might be closed . Russian Federation : Acting Kyrgyz president says multiply official death toll by 10 . UN ##DP : UNHCR will start airlifting supplies to Kyrgyzstan this weekend .