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Iraqis, and the mistreatment of women, children and political prisoners.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/us-and-uz.htm
(several links on that page which show extent of Uzbek brutality)
Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People Alive
Once again proving that Americans (the gov) never have, and never will, care about the plight of oppressed people anywhere in the world (unless they are Israelis, who are not oppressed).
It is not about whether you are a bad dictator and kill your people or not, it is about:
Either you are with us, or against us
(and this Karimov guy is ONE OF SEVERAL BRUTAL dictators supported but the US; I live under one)
I wonder if the C16 guy has any answer to this, since he keeps posting on here all the time about how the poor Iraqis were oppressed by Saddam, and he is there helping them 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,963497,00.html
Some excerpts:
| Quote : | "Independent human rights groups estimate that there are more than 600 politically motivated arrests a year in Uzbekistan, and 6,500 political prisoners, some tortured to death. According to a forensic report commissioned by the British embassy, in August two prisoners were even boiled to death.
The US condemned this repression for many years. But since September 11 rewrote America's strategic interests in central Asia, the government of President Islam Karimov has become Washington's new best friend in the region.
The US is funding those it once condemned. Last year Washington gave Uzbekistan $500m (£300m) in aid. The police and intelligence services - which the state department's website says use "torture as a routine investigation technique" received $79m of this sum.
The bodies of Muzafar Avazov, a 35-year-old father of four, and Khusniddin Alimov, aged 34, were brought from Jaslyk prison in the Northern Karaklapakstan region to their families in Tashkent on 8 August. Muzafar Avazov was reportedly tortured to death; an eyewitness said the body showed signs of burns on the legs, buttocks, lower back and arms. Reportedly, there was a large wound on the back of the head, bruises on the forehead, and the hands had no fingernails. The authorities reportedly restricted viewing of Khusniddin Alimov's body.
The five members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir were reportedly tortured in order to force them to "confess". The methods included near-suffocation with a plastic bag, being hung upside down, having needles stuck under finger- and toe-nails, having their hands and feet burned and having electric shocks administered via a device fitted to the head ("electric cap").
Another senior western official said: "People have less freedom here than under Brezhnev. The irony is that the US Republican party is supporting the remnants of Brezhnevism as part of their fight against Islamic extremism." " |
[Edited on August 21, 2005 at 4:10 PM. Reason : ] 8/21/2005 4:06:43 PM
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