‘Bride kidnapping’ won’t be stopped by mere words

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 [More]

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