Uzbekistan Unbound

Here is the real truth about our "friends" in the world. I am absolutely sickened to be an American

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050519/cm_thenation/132603/nc:742
Such people must be shot in the forehead," Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov once said of political dissidents. "If necessary, I'll shoot them myself." When not personally gunning down his opposition, Karimov keeps busy by instructing his security forces to boil, rape or asphyxiate political prisoners.


Luckily for Karimov, he's a key US ally in the war on terror. The brutal events of last week only confirmed that awful reality. For months the Uzbek government had incarcerated 23 businessmen in the eastern city of Andijan on trumped-up charges of supporting an obscure Islamist group. Last week, militants stormed the prison and freed the prisoners. When thousands of demonstrators, emboldened by the jail break, assembled in Andijan's town square to protest their country's climate of repression, corruption and poverty, Karimov travelled to the city and instructed his soldiers to open fire on the crowd. Violence soon spread to the border with Kyrgyzstan, as soldiers allegedly targeted women and children. Anywhere from a few hundred to 745 people are reported dead.

more to tell how Scott the popinjay mouthpiece for this illegal regime is so full of shit.
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I looked for it and can't find one.

On Edit: Here it is...through google http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Uzbekistan+Unbound&btnG=Search+News


This is indeed sick. I am so fucking ashamed of this country..

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How peaceful change will occur when the US has supplied Karimov with $500 million in military aid and waived human rights requirements for military and non-proliferation assistance is anyone's guess. Shortly after 9/11, Uzbekistan granted the US a crucial air base to use for the war in Afghanistan.

The Bush Administration then began funneling $79 in aid to Uzbek security forces at the same time the State Department was condemning "torture as a routine investigation technique." When Colin Powell tried to cut off $18 million in additional aid for the security forces, General Richard Myers protested, and forced Powell to restore $7 million.

And just two weeks ago, the New York Times reported that the CIA had sent at least a dozen suspected terrorists to Uzbekistan for interrogation via a secret rendition program. "In my view, we shouldn't let any single issue drive a relationship with any single county," Myers said, dismissing human rights concerns. "It doesn't seem to be good policy to me."

Meanwhile, on a recent trip to Europe, Bush appeared even more divorced from reality than usual. "We will not repeat the mistakes of other generations, appeasing or excusing tyranny, and sacrificing freedom in the vain pursuit of stability," he said in Latvia. Then again, this is the man who once told the New Yorker, "No president has ever done more for human rights than I have."

I certainly hope this fuckwit gets a taste of his own before he dies.

link in OP is broken and it's an Op-Ed piece. Please feel free to post in Editorials and other articles.