ddeubel
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 Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:22 am Post subject: Uzbekistan -- an Iraqi embryo in micro... |
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A very interesting video about Uzbekistan just posted for view and part of a N.Y. Times story.
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=18453&prog=zru
Great viewing and REAL. Although edited by the Karimov government , it shows some raw footage and English subtitles about what actually happened at Andijan in May. Let's also put this into context seeing their president was embraced by the U.S. , Cheney saying he is "our man" though having at the same time, the State Dept. saying it condemned the loss of life and many human rights violations!!!!!!!!!!
There is a lot here in this issue. Please read Martha Olcott's excellent articles on carnegie.....she knows her stuff and is very good in stating what should be done by the U.S. Will they do it? Support democracy, give money to education and exchange.....Probably not. They will send in arms, maybe even arm the Muslim fanatics too ? Wouldn't put it past them. Seems the U.S. is just about supporting repression, as long as they got their man.......(and Karimov is him......despite his communist past, strong man tactics and also muslimic leanings -- symbolically of course...).
Lots of issues here that make it an Iraq in minature.... but the video says a lot . Hope Karimov bought lots of Gucci while in the States!!! I also hear he probably shot pheasants with Bush!!
I spent a month in Tashkent a number of years ago..... He is a tyrant. Yet the U.S. courts him ........hmmmmmm human rights, alright! Let's also not forget that there has been no inquiry into the deaths of Andijan, they are just forgotten. More dead wood along the path of "keeping power". Geo political interest......
Here too are a few words reasoning why the U.S. supports a dictator probably even more abhorrent and deadly than Saddam (and invites him to Washington!)
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To protect those interests Bush seems remarkably willing to tolerate a regime which has become a byword for ruthless authoritarianism. In Karimov�s Uzbekistan torture and murder are commonplace; public confessions are beaten out of political prisoners with a ferocity and regularity which would not have been out of place in Stalin�s time, and the harshness of the regime prevents the formation and encouragement of the kind of opposition groups which prompted the �rose revolution� in Georgia and the �orange revolution� in Ukraine.
In any other country Karimov�s behaviour would have been enough for Bush to effect regime change but, apart from withdrawing a paltry $18 million in aid last year, the White House has been strangely mute on what is happening in Uzbekistan.
In response to questions about why an exception seems to have been made for Karimov, the State Department�s regular response is that Russia or China would move quickly into the void left by the US, and that the country is not only an important ally in the war against terrorism but is also a strategically vital staging post. |
Anyways watch the video , interesting from whatever vantagepoint.
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