The shock of dissent
Warnings for two governments
IT IS unclear what started the brutal clashes: stone-throwing by demonstrators or the police opening fire. What is certain is that five people are dead and dozens have been injured as a result of two days of violence this week, the worst in Kirgizstan's ten years of independence. For the first time too, the authorities in this small Central Asian country kept order by firing into a crowd.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “The shock of dissent”
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