Bride Kidnapping

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Dedicated to Understanding Ala Kachuu 
and Preventing Non-Consensual Marriage
 

“Forcing a woman to marry or to continue a marriage 
or kidnapping her in order to marry without her consent
,” 
is a violation of the law of the Kyrgyz Republic, and a violation 
of her fundamental human rights of security, freedom and equality.

Kurmanjan Datka was an outstanding Kyrgyz stateswoman (1811-1907). 
Born into a simple nomad family  of the Mongush clan in the Alai mountains, at the age of 18 she was given in an arranged marriage to a man whom she didn't see until her wedding day - when she met him, 
she didn't like him and after one day, she broke with tradition 
and returned home - deciding to stay with her father in his yurt.  

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01/03/2008

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