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Dec 31, 1999

International News and Developments: 1999 – 1998

On December 27th, Turkmenistan became the first of the five for­mer Soviet Central Asian republics to abol­ish the death penal­ty. The peo­ple’s coun­cil passed a res­o­lu­tion amend­ing the con­sti­tu­tion and remov­ing the death penal­ty.​“Now in our coun­try nei­ther the gov­ern­ment nor any­one else has the right to take away human life,” said Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov. (Reuters,…

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