Forces 'May Have Killed 1,000 Uzbek Civilians'

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Uzbek police and security forces may have killed up to 1,000 unarmed civilians in recent unrest, and the West needs to do more to improve the situation in the Central Asian country, two human rights group said today. (...)

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan claimed that up to 1,000 unarmed civilians have been killed in the unrest, and another 2,000 injured.

“The (Andijan) attack can be interpreted as an act of brutal repression aimed at further intimidating the Uzbek population in the face of democratic changes in Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Georgia,” the groups said in a statement. ”Uzbekistan is among the most repressive countries in the world.”

Talib Yakubov, the chairman of the Uzbek organisation, told a news conference that the dead included 745 victims in Andijan, another 200 in Pakhtabad and an unknown number in Korasuv.

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[rodeodance]

1. call him SH--maybe that will get the WHite houses attention??

[rodeodance]

2. lets hear bush call him a brutal dictator--killing his own people

[bennywhale]

3. Hypocrisy, lies, power, games, dead innocents. It was ever thus

[rodeodance]

4. rummy wants his bases-therefore we look the other way

[bennywhale]

5. American primacy is the underlying

principle of American foreign policy. If that coincides with democracy fine. If it coincides with slaughter so be it.