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Protests over Kyrgyz poll results
Several thousand people have protested in southern Kyrgyzstan for a second day over disputed weekend election results, according to an election monitoring group. Around 4000 protesters gathered outside a mayor's office in the constituency of Nooken in support of an opposition candidate who came second in Sunday's elections to the 75-seat parliament, a representative of the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society, Cholpun Argesheva, said on Tuesday. "They were demanding the resignation of the mayor and head of the district election commission and the carrying out of fair elections," Argesheva said. In another southern town, Aravan, around 3000 people demonstrated and blocked off a road in support of the defeated rector of the nearby Kyrgyz-Uzbek University, another observer for the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society, Ruslan Tashenov, said. Posted by: Fred 2005-03-02 |
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