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# Kyrgyzstan riots
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19393/
- Published: 2005-03-21T21:03:18.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:33:02.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

In [Kyrgyzstan](http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kg.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) protestors are so furious, it's the police who are being [beaten to death ](http://www.paarmann.info/blog/archives/2005%5F03.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)on the streets. Political unrest in this Central Asian country of 5 million people, is getting scant coverage in the international press, but openDemocracy staffer Ben Paarmann is keeping tabs on the tense situation in [his blog](http://www.paarmann.info/blog/archives/cat%5Fben.html?ref=opendemocracy.net). Ben worked for the International Foundation for Election Systems in Krygyzstan briefly in 2004, and is an editor of [thinking-east.net](http://www.thinking-east.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net) a website by young academics about North Africa, Near and Middle East and Central Asia.

David Hayes contributes this link: [Stakes rise in Kyrgyzstan uprising](http://www.indianexpress.com/full%5Fstory.php?content%5Fid=66948&ref=opendemocracy.net)