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Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
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June 19, 2012
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June 19, 2012
16,244,933
162,326
74,556
1.46%
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34:24Now PlayingIn rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the old-fashioned 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 a young groom named Kubanti as he surprised his teenage girlfriend Nazgul with the gift of marriage/kidnapping.
Hosted by Thomas Morton | Originally aired in 2011 on
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