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UZBEKISTAN AND KYRGYZSTAN: Smugglers Own the Night
- Inter Press Service
, Aug 22 (IPS) - During the day, when Uzbek border guards patrol its streets, Mingdon is a sleepy Ferghana Valley town. But after night falls, Mingdon, a hamlet of 10,000 on Uzbekistan’s frontier with Kyrgyzstan, turns into a smugglers’ paradise.
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