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mrph"At the Khuderbegainov trial I met an old man from Andizhan. Two of his children had been tortured in front of him until he signed a confession on the family's links with Bin Laden. Tears were streaming down his face. I have no doubt they had as much connection with Bin Laden as I do. This is the standard of the Uzbek intelligence services."
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"From Tashkent it is difficult to agree that we and the US are activated by shared values. Here we have a brutal US sponsored dictatorship reminiscent of Central and South American policy under previous US Republican administrations. I watched George Bush talk today of Iraq and "dismantling the apparatus of
terror… removing the torture chambers and the rape rooms". Yet when it comes to the Karimov regime, systematic torture and rape appear to be treated as peccadilloes, not to affect the relationship and to be downplayed in international fora. Double standards? Yes."
"While the US makes token and low-level references to human rights to appease domestic opinion, they view Karimov's vicious regime as a bastion against fundamentalism. He – and they – are in fact creating fundamentalism. When the US gives this much support to a regime that tortures people to death for having a beard or praying five times a day, is it any surprise that Muslims come to hate the West?"
Taken from the pdf documents here:
http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/node/716
Also, to quote the text there:
And he's right. Karimov is every bit as unpleasant as some of the dictators we've recently been condemning. But, y'know, our governments don't really seem to want to talk about that right now.
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More excerpts:
"From Tashkent it is difficult to agree that we and the US are activated by shared values. Here we have a brutal US sponsored dictatorship reminiscent of Central and South American policy under previous US Republican administrations. I watched George Bush talk today of Iraq and "dismantling the apparatus of
terror… removing the torture chambers and the rape rooms". Yet when it comes to the Karimov regime, systematic torture and rape appear to be treated as peccadilloes, not to affect the relationship and to be downplayed in international fora. Double standards? Yes."
"While the US makes token and low-level references to human rights to appease domestic opinion, they view Karimov's vicious regime as a bastion against fundamentalism. He – and they – are in fact creating fundamentalism. When the US gives this much support to a regime that tortures people to death for having a beard or praying five times a day, is it any surprise that Muslims come to hate the West?"
Taken from the pdf documents here:
http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/node/716
Also, to quote the text there:
"In particular, they have demanded I do not publish the attached documents, and that I hand over all copies of them.Craig Murray almost certainly has an agenda. But there is plenty of evidence that what he's saying about Karimov's thugs is pretty accurate, even if his speculation about US/UK motives and benefits is often more than a little suspect.
The obvious answer to this is to post these documents as widely on the web as possible. This is also potentially very valuable in establishing that I am not attempting to make money from these documents"
And he's right. Karimov is every bit as unpleasant as some of the dictators we've recently been condemning. But, y'know, our governments don't really seem to want to talk about that right now.
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