Businesses Shuttered, Migrants Stay Home Amid Tensions Over Alleged Rape In Russian Region
Markets where many of the workers are Kyrgyz have closed.
Some businesses owned by Central Asians have been shuttered, bus services disrupted, and Kyrgyz migrants in Sakha-Yakutia urged to stay home following two days of demonstrations that took place after police said a Kyrgyz man was suspected of raping a woman in the Russian region's capital, Yakutsk.
Tension lingered in the city 4,900 kilometers east of Moscow on March 19, a day after some 5,000 people held a rally at a stadium, many of them demanding "justice" for the victim of the alleged rape and calling for tighter restrictions on migration from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.
A Kyrgyz woman named Jyldyz, who did not give her last name for fear of repercussions, told RFE/RL that she and several colleagues who were also from Central Asia decided not to go to work at the Stolichny market because they fear violence.
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Get a load of that market place, now, that is cold....so, if one is trying to interpret this, a migrant from Kyrgyzstan is accused of raping a woman but... the Russians here, obviously, appear very Asian.... a bit of drama. I think the migrants that they are protesting against, appear just as Asiatic as they are...but religions may definitely vary.
More reading:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/03/19/following-protests-against-migrant-workers-in-irkutsk-dozens-of-bus-drivers-stay-home-from-work-and-kiosk-vendors-are-told-to-shut-down-for-their-own-safetyThat above seems to be a big anti-migrant rally. We would do well to have something like this here.... pretty amazing.
Again, people are protesting about everywhere.
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/call-to-avoid-mob-rule-amid-mass-anger-in-yakutsk-after-kidnap-and-rape-of-local-woman-by-kygryz-migrant/ More here.
Hard to think the auditorium size is 3,000, there has to be more people there.
