This article reads like the script of a kickass martial arts movie from the 70’s:
Many say people power brought down the regime in Kyrgyzstan last week. But Bayaman Erkinbayev, a lawmaker, martial arts champ and one of the Central Asian nation’s richest men, says it was his small army of Kung Fu-style fighters.
A hero in his hometown Osh, he is generally considered to have financed the protests and sent his martial arts trainees to the front lines of the demonstrations, including in the capital Bishkek.
“When our old men were beaten and thrown out of the regional administration building, my fighters were on the front line. And during the siege in Bishkek, my fighters went in first,” Erkinbayev told AFP in his gymnasium in Osh.
This guy isn’t Mr. Clean, though. Check out this info from later in the article:
Erkinbayev is no stranger to election scandals.
In the parliamentary elections of 2000 he is said to have spent two weeks on the run from the police after allegedly beating a judge who ordered him to drop out of the race for failing to disclose some of his wife’s property in his registration form.
The ruling was later overturned under unclear circumstances and Erkinbayev described it as an “untruth.”
“When I met the judge later he retracted his accusations,” he said.
If some indie studio doesn’t make a movie about this guy and his Kung Fu army, they are missing out. I’ll buy the DVD! 
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