Kyrgyzstan
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Kyrgyzstan’s Brutal Tradition of Kidnapping and Raping Brides
The future husband rapes the young woman shortly after having kidnapped her (it is estimated that there are 2,000 rapes preceding marriage a year), thus condemning her as his wife, for returning to her family after that would be a deep mark of shame.