Tilek Tynai uulu
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Tilek Tynai uulu (registered as Tilek Tynaev; 1958–2004) was a marshrutka driver killed in the wedding minibus shooting of 26 June 2004.[1]
The shooting
He was driving a family home from a wedding in Kyzyl-Adyr when his minibus ran a US checkpoint that he did not know was there; he did not understand the orders shouted in English.[1]
Memory
His name is the first of five on the stone at the spot. His widow spoke at the vigils that followed the acquittal of December 2004.[1]
References
- ^ Talas State University, Institute of History (2022). Biographical Dictionary of Irad, 1860–2010. Talas: Talas State University Press.
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