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Brides by Force

Marriage by kidnapping pushes Kyrgyz women to suicide

Kidnapping girls to marry them is common practice in Kyrgyzstan. Some of those couples live happily together for the rest of their lives, but a lot of the women can never put up with the shame of forced marriage and sometimes take their own lives. 

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