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Chris Rickleton – IPS – Friday, 17 February 2012 (originally published 11 Feb) BISHKEK, Feb 11, 2012 (IPS/EurasiaNet) – Legislation designed to discourage the controversial practice of bride kidnapping fizzled recently in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament. The bill lost support because a key provision could also be used to crack down on the ostensibly illegal, yet quietly [...]
Joel Brinkley – SFGate – Wednesday, 14 December 2011(originally published 11 Dec) On her final full day in office, President Roza Otunbayeva of Kyrgyzstan became the first senior Kyrgyz official to forcefully denounce “bride kidnapping,” an entrenched custom in her Central Asian state. “Bride kidnapping is a tradition of the Kyrgyz people,” she acknowledged as [...]
