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...driest month for subtropical regions like Yunnan, which depend on the coming of seasonal rains for their fertility. Historically, water-splashing has been a symbolic way of beseeching the divine to bring an end to scarcity and hasten a period of abundance. Never have the people of South China needed that abundance more than now, during the worst drought the area has seen in nearly a century...
...week after a violent uprising ran him out of the capital, Kurmanbek Bakiyev had been refusing to concede the presidency of Kyrgyzstan, holing up with his family and hundreds of bodyguards in the south of the country - specifically, in his native province of Dzhalalabad. Special-forces units loyal to the new government have reportedly been dispatched to arrest Bakiyev, who, with members of his inner circle, has been charged with ordering riot police to open fire on protesters on April 7, littering the streets around the presidential palace with bodies. Bakiyev declared that any attempt to capture and kill...
Despite the belligerent words, Paul Quinn-Judge, the International Crisis Group's director in Central Asia and a former Moscow bureau chief for TIME, says a civil war between the north and south of the country is very unlikely, even if Bakiyev has resources at his disposal to resist the new government. "Bakiyev may be bluffing. He may be trying to increase pressure on the government to make some concessions. But if he does decide to cause problems, his biggest weapon is not public sympathy - he has very little of that - but a very large amount of money, which...
...capital, Bishkek, and several other cities around the country. They then used the weapons to storm and loot government buildings in a day of upheaval that claimed some 80 lives and left hundreds wounded. By the following day, Bakiyev had fled to his power base in the south, and a new government had claimed power and restored a level of calm. (Could the U.S. lose its base in Kyrgyzstan...
...remains unclear how much resistance Bakiyev will be able to muster. Alleged eyewitness reports posted on Kyrgyz Internet forums claim that Bakiyev travels around the south with an entourage of 20 bodyguards, while his home is surrounded by about 500 heavily armed men. Still, he admitted to the BBC on Saturday that he has "no real levers of power." On Saturday, he called for the U.N. to send peacekeepers to Kyrgyzstan to prevent further bloodshed. But his calls for foreign help are likely to prove futile. Both Russia and the U.S. have promised aid to the government that toppled...