KYRGYZSTAN’S KUNG-​​FU REVOLUTION

“Many say peo­ple power brought down the regime in Kyrgyzstan last week. But Bayaman Erkinbayev, a law­maker, mar­tial arts champ and one of the Central Asian nation’s rich­est men, says it was his small army of Kung Fu-​​style fight­ers,” accord­ing to AFP.

“When our old men were beaten and thrown out of the regional admin­is­tra­tion build­ing, my fight­ers were on the front line. And dur­ing the siege in Bishkek, my fight­ers went in first,” Erkinbayev says…
Pupils from Erkinbayev’s Alysh mar­tial arts school in Osh were sent to pro­tect demon­stra­tors protest­ing the con­tested bal­lot in the Kara Suu bazaar.
Afterwards demon­stra­tions with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of Erkinbayev’s trainees spread to the south­ern cities of Jalal-​​Abad, Osh, and Batken. They cap­tured gov­ern­ment sites, burnt down police sta­tions and blocked key high­ways in the lead-​​up to the chaos that deposed Akayev in Bishkek. (via Fortean Times)

March 30th, 2005 | Bizarro | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.