Thoughts about Andijon…
May 13, 2005… Three years have passed since the bloody suppression of a civic demonstration in the center of Andijon city, Uzbekistan. According to different independent sources, several hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were shot dead by government troops on this day. Many people fled to neighboring Kyrgyzstan, where UNHCR helped them to find an asylum in the third country. We have written many posts dedicated to Andijon events. This time, we want to ask you what do you think about Andijon events. Please, share your thoughts with others.
on May 13th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Let us first of all pay our respects to the Andijan martyrs and their relatives.
The Andijan massacre showed the real face of the regime beyond all the Disney architecture façades that tourists gawk at during their Samarkand and Bukhara junkets. It also lifted a tip of the veil on the daily oppression, humiliations and structural poverty that the Uzbek people have to endure up to this day.
In the meantime, the West, and the EUnuch in particular, is making the same mistake (under the pretext of whatever diplo-bollocks) as they did with Saddam and scores of African dictators at the time. OK, fine. That’s what they do. We all know the outcome. I rejoice because I know that it wil cost them dearly.
History has its own justice. Karimov, his satraps and their SNB and OMON know that.
on May 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
It was a massacre, a real slaughter of innocent people, who went out to the main square to speak and listen about the daily problems they have. Of course, there were some armed people who seized the administration building, but why the hell the government troops shot the innocent?
on May 13th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
even people tries not to remind 3 years old events in order not to publically remind. if there were terrorist attack, as officials said, why today there are no patriotic actions are taken by Kamolot or other “puppy” organizations to blame and blame again those terrorists? only silence. they say: “silence is gold…” but not in this case…
MAY ALLAH LET THEM REST IN PEACE!
on May 14th, 2008 at 9:44 am
One thing that the Andijan massacre showed is, that this so-called ’stability’ that the Karimov regime brings is fake, and mainly based on oppression.
on May 16th, 2008 at 3:02 am
HRW recently published its report on Andijan. I found it very interesting. Here is the link.
http://hrw.org/reports/2008/uzbekistan0508/
on May 17th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
The brave Andijan revolt was basically an equivalent of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. It’s most ironical that Karimov’s death squads are co-trained by the Mossad.