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What power do culture and tradition have in the persistence of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan and or Kazakhstan?

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The UN estimates that 12,000 cases of kidnapping occur every year. Although the punishment on bride kidnapping was tightened in 2013 (the practice has been illegal since Kyrgyzstan’s independence from the USSR), prosecution is rare.

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