13.05.2013 кунлик архив
A massacre that should not fade into history
By Hugh Williamson and Steve Swerdlow
Eight years after the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan remains a human-rights disaster. When will the EU change its strategy towards Uzbekistan?
Eight years have passed since one of the worst massacres in the former Soviet Union. On 13 May 2005, security forces in the city of Andijan, Uzbekistan, opened fire on protesters, the vast majority unarmed, killing hundreds of men, women and children as they tried to flee. No one has been held accountable, and the authoritarian president, Islam Karimov, has defied calls for an independent investigation.
Mohira Ortiqova: “Ombudsman prefers?”
Dear reader!
On April 12, 2012, Yves Daccord, director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, posted on his Twitter page the news that the committee stopped its work in Uzbek prisons.
Daccord said that the leadership of the committee came to this decision because of the unconstructive attitude of the Uzbek authorities.
Previously, members of this prestigious international organization has met with many of the prisoners in the jails of Uzbekistan, and tried to solve their problems. Of course, this process has not always been easy.
In this regard, “Jarayon” begins publishing a series of materials received from relatives of prisoners, as well as from former prisoners who met in Uzbek prisons with representatives of the Red Cross.
Perhaps these articles will help our readers better understand the reasons for the refusal of ICRC to visit prisons in Uzbekistan…
