Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the oldfashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that s made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts. We traveled to the Kyrgyz countryside to follow, aid and abet a young groom named Kubanti as he surprised his teenage girlfriend Nazgul with the gift of marriage, kidnapping. Hosted by Thomas Morton
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