‘The People Captured Power Themselves’: Kyrgyzstan Cleans Up After Night of Chaos
BISHKEK — Store owners in Kyrgyzstan’s capital spent Monday emptying their premises of stock and boarding up the facades. The day after disputed parliamentary elections triggered widespread protests, they wanted to avoid the looting they’d seen in previous revolutions in 2005 and 2010. By Tuesday the Central Asian nation’s Central Electoral Commission had canceled the…