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Anger Over Poverty Fueled Kyrgyz Uprising
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Mar 28, 2005 05:42pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Monday, March 28, 2005 11:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | DARDOI, Kyrgyzstan - Jumatai is 8 and looks much younger. He can't walk. He can't close his mouth, so he can only eat mashed food. The state should have treated his disability, his grandmother says, but instead it turned its back on ordinary people.
Across Kyrgyzstan, frustrations such as these fused into the street protests that climaxed last week with crowds storming the presidential office building and driving out Askar Akayev.
"The government made such a mess of things," said Aiymkan Baitasheva, the grandmother. "I wish that just once Akayev would have driven past here. Right now I am feeling so much anger. What can I do?"
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