Protesters overthrew the government. It seems 41 people died during this riot. I'm not sure what the further details were though other than the president that was put into power promised things he couldn't deliver on and so they want him out.

It's not so much that he was unable to fulfill his promises, more that he actively reneged on some basic ones and in doing so made the cost of living skyrocket, leaving some people to die from lack of services. Additionally, while people were scraping together money to pay their exorbitant water bill, the president and his family were living like kings. So Russia signaled to the opposition that it wouldn't intervene if the government was overthrown, and they made a mass movement to kick out the ex-president.

This is the second country to kick out the criminals brought to power by the "color" revolutions (Kyrgzstan had one, even though it was called the "Tulip Revolution" for some horrid reason).

I expected the truck at 1:15 to barrel into a crowd of people in retaliation.

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