Uzbeks Accused of Torture in Wake of Massacre

buzzsaw_23

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Uzbeks Accused of Torture in Wake of Massacre

Uzbeks accused of torture in wake of massacre

Nick Paton Walsh in Tashkent
Tuesday September 20, 2005
The Guardian

The government of Uzbekistan has launched an unprecedented crackdown in the wake of the Andijan massacre, with a series of arrests and torture being used to extract confessions, human rights groups will say today.

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Rights groups have said that up to 700 people were shot dead, but the government has maintained that 187 were killed. The 15 suspects are charged with murder, mass unrest and attempting a coup - charges that carry the death penalty.

The HRW report says 4,500 massacre survivors have been arrested. It adds that the crackdown is aimed not only at preventing further uprisings but also "rewriting the history" of the events on May 13.

Activists and journalists who tried to tell the truth about the massacre have, the report says, "been arrested on spurious charges, detained, beaten, threatened, put under surveillance or under de facto house arrest, and have been set upon by mobs and humiliated through Soviet-style public denunciations". The prosecutor general has accused western journalists of waging an information war, dubbing them "hyenas and jackals".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1573906,00.html

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struggle4progress

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Tue Sep-20-05 07:20 PM
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1. Uzbekistan is a destination of the CIA "rendition" flights:

Destination Cairo: human rights fears over CIA flights

· Snatched suspects tell of torture
· UN investigator to look at British role

Ian Cobain, Stephen Grey and Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday September 12, 2005
The Guardian

... These suspects are denied legal representation, and their detention is concealed from the International Committee of the Red Cross. The most common destination is Egypt, but there is evidence of detainees also being flown to Jordan, Morocco, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Syria.

Precise numbers are impossible to determine. A report on renditions published by New York University school of law and the New York City Bar Association suggests that around 150 people have been "rendered" in the last four years, but that is only an estimate. A handful have emerged from what has been labelled a secret gulag, and have given deeply disturbing accounts of horrific mistreatment ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1567849,00.html

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seemslikeadream

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Tue Sep-20-05 07:30 PM
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2. What's going on in Uzbekistan?

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struggle4progress

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Tue Sep-20-05 08:04 PM
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3. Thanks for putting together that very informative collection of threads.

W man really do speak with forked tongue ...

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seemslikeadream

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Tue Sep-20-05 09:59 PM
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4. Here's a few more

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