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| The West's Torture farm - Uzbekistan |
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April 2005
It's one of the nastiest, most repressive
dictatorships in Asia but its relationship with
Washington has helped it avoid censor. Just how
valuable an ally is Uzbekistan in the War on
Terror?
Critics of the government risk being tortured to
death, there's no freedom of speech and all
opposition parties are banned. "This is not a
government. It's a monster against its own
people," laments Prof Mirsaidov. In the name of
fighting Islamic terror, Uzbekistan has jailed
thousands of members of Hiz-but-Tahrir. The
problem is, many claim they are innocent and
confessions are extracted under torture. But
despite its appalling human rights record, few
Western governments seem willing to criticise it.
Uzbekistan is now regarded as a key ally in the
War on Terror. It allows the US to use its
airbases to support operations in Afghanistan and
American agents are believed to have 'rendered'
terrorist suspects to Uzbekistan to be tortured.
However, there are growing fears that siding with
this repressive regime to fight terrorism is
counter productive. As former British Ambassador
Craig Murray states: "Our short sighted policy in
Asia is creating the terrorism we claim we are
fighting."
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| UZBEKISTAN NATIONAL ANTHEM |
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CROSSOVER singer ROSE (Rose Jang) SINGS
UZBEKISTAN NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR SO. KOREA VS.
UZBEKISTAN A-MATCH on July 5, 2007 at Sang-Ahm
Worldcup stadium, Seoul, So. Korea. She is
Korean-American from New York and active in USA
and Korea.
Her official website:www.rosejang.com. Her
album,is sold on Rhapsody, Apple iTunes and
Amazon.com throughout USA, Asia and Europe.
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| Uzbekistan Samarqand Samarkand Islamic Empire History |
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Paradise Found Documentary
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video!
In the fourteenth century AD, Timur, known in the
west as Tamerlane, overpowered the Mongols and
built an empire. In his military campaigns,
Tamerlane reached as far as the Middle East. He
defeated Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, who was
captured, and died in captivity. Tamerlane sought
to build a capital for his empire in Samarkand.
Today Tamerlane is considered to be one of the
greatest heroes in Uzbekistan. He plays a
significant role in its national id and history.
Following the fall of the Timurid Empire, Uzbek
nomads conquered the region.
In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire
began to expand, and spread into Central Asia. The
"Great Game" period is generally regarded as
running from approximately 1813 to the
Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. Following the
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 a second less
intensive phase followed. At the start of the 19th
century, there were some 2,000 miles (3,200 km)
separating British India and the outlying regions
of the Tsarist Russia. Much of the land in between
was unmapped.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, Central
Asia was firmly in the hands of Russia and despite
some early resistance to Bolsheviks, Uzbekistan
and the rest of Central Asia became a part of the
Soviet Union. On August 31, 1991, Uzbekistan
declared independence, marking September 1 as a
national holiday.
Source: Wikipedia
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