Fire of Liberty
According to this story at ABC News, Kyrgyzstan's President Askar Akayev and his family have left the small Central Asia nation. I guess the protests and social unrest throughout the nation got on this autocrat's last nerves. Seems that the storming of government buildings and the release of political prisoners convinced the president to get the heck out of Dodge. Just look at what The Guardian out of England reported on the situation. This is very similar to the events in Romania in 1989 when Ceausescu was forced to leave his presidential palace via helicopter. The only difference is that he eventually caught and shot to death. I guess Akayev read the writing on the wall.
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