On April 7, 2010, thousands of people crowded the streets of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s small, mountainous, capital city and presided over the fall of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the leader of the country’s kleptocratic government. Clashes between protesters and security forces left 89 people dead that day, and Bakiyev fled the capital for exile in Belarus. A motley crew of opposition figures formed an interim government that pledged to end the corruption, violence, and despotism that has marked the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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