With the first anniversary of events in Andijon drawing closer, here is a list with events that will take place during the next couple of days.

May 9, 2006 “One Year After Andijon: What’s Next For Uzbekistan and the U.S.”
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington

featuring presentations by:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) (invited)
Amb. Michael G. Kozak (National Security Council) (invited)

Time and venue:

8:45AM-12:00 noon
Choate Room
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

10 May 2006 Discussion: “One Year After Andijan: Uzbekistan Shuts Down the News”

Freelance journalist Shahida Yakub travelled to Andijan a month after the massacre. She’ll show her video footage, which includes testimony from Andijan refugees and from Qabul Parpiev, the only surviving leader of the group that triggered the May 2005 protest.

Speakers include Sharifjon Akhmedov, former BBC stringer and a live witness of the Andijan events; Steve Crawshaw, London Director, Human Rights Watch; and Andrew Stroehlein, Director of Media, International Crisis Group. Moderated by Jonathan Steele.

Time and venue:
7.30pm
Frontline Club, London

11 May 2006: “Andijan One Year On: Lessons and Perspectives for the Future”

Presented by the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Speakers:

Monica Whitlock (BBC) ‘Introducing a BBC documentary, Cheaper than the Ground.’
Alisher Ilkhamov (SOAS) ‘Akramiya: fact or fiction?’
Matteo Fumagalli (University of Edinburgh) ‘Andijan: Views from beyond the border’

Time and venue:

17.30
Room G3, Main Building
SOAS, University of London

11 May 2006: “One year after Andijan”

Roundtable on Uzbekistan hosted by the European Parliament Central Asia and Mongolia Delegation and the ALDE group, in cooperation with international NGOs

Time and venue:
10-13h
Brussels , European Parliament, ASP, Room A5G1

There will also be a demonstration in London next Saturday:

A year later the memories of this horrible massacre are still very fresh. It is important that we don’t let the world forget Andijan. Please join us to commemorate this tragic event. Pls tell as many people as you can. We have pushed ahead trying to organise a demonstration for Saturday May 13th.

The police have been now been notified and we have booked the slot opposite Downing Street for around midday on Saturday May 13th (12:30pm - 3pm). This will give us an opportunity to both commemorate the anniversary of the Andijan massacre and bring attention to British government policy - its original support for Islam Karimov at the time of the massacre, the use of information produced from the torture of Uzbek dissidents, the treatment of Craig Murray etc.

Please try and help out so we don’t let the anniversary of this atrocity pass us by without a mention anywhere in Britain…