Yeah, me too. From what I gather, corruption is just out of control there. Try this post from someone with family there. There's a couple of pretty informative links in the comments.
What I've read so far sounds like at least most of the guard were using tear gas and rubber bullets, which is probably why it's like 50-100 people dead, rather than thousands, so I'm very glad for that.
It's interesting to watch something that seems so quick and spontaneous. But revolution is the easy part: it's fixing the underlying problems that's hard. If they use what's left of the existing governmental structure, they'll face the same problems, and building a whole new governmental structure is really, really difficult.
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From that link, some context on the weapons that protestors have:
"It's very hard to get even hand guns in KG.
This was not even the police; our common police does not carry automatic weapons.
These were most likely the presidential guard, defending the key buildings in the capital.
So yes, they were taken from the police/presidential guard"
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It's interesting to watch something that seems so quick and spontaneous. But revolution is the easy part: it's fixing the underlying problems that's hard. If they use what's left of the existing governmental structure, they'll face the same problems, and building a whole new governmental structure is really, really difficult.
I wish them luck, in any case.
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