20 police injured in Kyrgyzstan mining protests
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) April 04, 2014 - Twenty Kyrgyzstan police officers were left injured after clashes with demonstrators who blocked a highway in protests against gold prospecting, the Central Asian country's government said on Friday. Several hundred villagers in the Talas region of northwestern Kyrgyzstan launched the protest Thursday after a Kazakh company began gold prospecting at a nearby deposit. Mining is crucial to ... more
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