David Corn wonders why the White House hasn't spoken up about the latest from Uzbekistan, where hundreds of protestors were massacred in May. Corn links to this from the Independent:
Uzbek authorities have jailed hundreds of people and forced them to confess to links to radical Islamists to justify the army crackdown on peaceful demonstrators last May that left 500 people dead, The Independent has learnt.
Human Rights Watch reports that witnesses of the massacre in the eastern city of Andizhan and relatives of the victims, have been rounded up and jailed for between 10 to 15 days on fabricated charges. "They are severely beaten and tortured until they sign statements confessing to being members of radical Islamic groups," a researcher for the group who has just visited the central Asian region said.
We've already lost future rights to the airbase there. But I understand. Sticking to a real policy of "speading freedom and liberty" vs. possibly a few extra months at a base. Must be a hard call.
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Astana leader prefers to recover and prepare for 2011
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