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Oral History Project Takes on Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan - The Solutions Journal
Ala kachuu directly translates to “to take and run away” in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and is known to the world as the practice of bride kidnapping. It can occur both consensually, as a staged elopement, and non-consensually. In the non-consensual form, a woman is forcibly taken to a man’s home whe…