[Mb-civic] Kyrgyz Protesters Burn a Police Building

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Kyrgyz Protesters Burn a Police Building 
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Demonstrators venting anger over the results of recent elections, which they call fraudulent, attack the headquarters in a southern city.

By David Holley
Times Staff Writer

March 21 2005

MOSCOW — Protesters rallying against President Askar A. Akayev burned down police headquarters Sunday in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Jalal-Abad, raising tensions in a country considered key to U.S. hopes for democracy in Central Asia. 

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