Central Asia's week that was #8
Pogrom in Kyrgyzstan, protests in Kazakhstan, Rain (and more rain) all over the region. And then, sorcerers in Tajikistan, bank sold for cheap, and football news from Kyrgyzstan.
So this happened…
Violent mobs of young men in Kyrgyzstan’s capital laid siege to the dormitories of Pakistani university students. More than 40 people sustained injuries over a night of assaults. The attack was said to be a reprisal for the beating of a group of Kyrgyz men at the hands of foreign students – Egyptians, in fact – a few days earlier. Polic…
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