{"id":14501,"date":"2012-09-12T04:15:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/kyrgyz-villagers-raid-mining-road-contractor\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T04:15:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:15:06","slug":"kyrgyz-villagers-raid-mining-road-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/kyrgyz-villagers-raid-mining-road-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyz villagers raid mining road contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Construction firm says staff threatened, bulldozers stolen<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Company was rebuilding a road to serve gold mine<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Chaarat Gold says operations unaffected<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Unrest has dogged mining projects in Central Asian state<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Olga Dzyubenko<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BISHKEK, Sept 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Kyrgyz villagers seized<br \/>\nbulldozers from a construction company repairing a road to a<br \/>\nmine operated by Chaarat Gold on Tuesday, the latest<br \/>\nsign of unrest overshadowing attempts by the Central Asian state<br \/>\nto attract foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new government in Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished former<br \/>\nSoviet republic, is seeking investors to mine gold, coal and<br \/>\nother minerals and bolster a fragile economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But attacks on several mining camps over the past 18 months<br \/>\nhave dented investor confidence. Villagers have raised<br \/>\nenvironmental concerns and demanded a greater share of mining<br \/>\nproceeds, often with the support of nationalist politicians.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The people who raided the construction camp in the Jalalabad<br \/>\nregion on Tuesday were angry about how long it was taking to<br \/>\nrepair the road which also goes through their villages, two<br \/>\nmining industry sources told Reuters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Construction firm says staff threatened, bulldozers stolen * Company was rebuilding a road to serve gold mine * Chaarat Gold says operations unaffected * Unrest has dogged mining projects in Central Asian state By Olga Dzyubenko BISHKEK, Sept 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Kyrgyz villagers seized bulldozers from a construction company repairing a road to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}