
"Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan," a five-part documentary premieres Monday, December 5th on VICE.com VICE correspondent Thomas Morton travels to Kyrgyzstan to investigate the Central Asian tradition of bride kidnapping, and brings back exclusive footage of a kidnapping in progress. The first installment will be released on Vice.com on Monday, December 5th, with subsequent episodes released daily. In "Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan," Morton travels to the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, where the VICE crew learns of a family preparing their son for a kidnapping. Kubanti, who has just come of marrying age, has his eye on Nazgul, an 18 year-old college student. Kubanti gathers his friends into an eight-seat minivan, and strategizes the operation: lure the girl to her neighborhood watering hole and, in an ambush, smuggle her away. "Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan," a five-part documentary premieres Monday, December 5th on VICE.com Although the tradition of bride kidnapping is illegal in Kyrgyzstan, authorities largely ignore the law and nearly half of all marriages in rural Kyrgyzstan are a result of the practice. "We are Kyrgyz. It's a tradition," says Madiev Tynchtk who appears in the film, a man happily married to his kidnapped wife. "It's in our blood." Russell Kleinbach, founder of the Kyz Korgon Institute, a non-governmental organization that works to abolish bride-kidnapping is interviewed in the film. He argues that the practice has never been a part of Kyrgyz <b>...</b>
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