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U.S. supports repression in Uzbekistan.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 27-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: U.S. supports repression in Uzbekistan.(COLUMNS)

Article Excerpt
In the city of Andijan in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, a large demonstration took place May 13, protesting government corruption, repression and the country's worsening poverty. Soldiers fired into the crowd, killing more than 500 civilians.

Rather than condemning the massacre, the White House called for "restraint" from both sides and claimed that Islamic "terrorist groups" may have been behind the protests that prompted the shootings.

Coming so soon after a recent overseas trip in which President George W. Bush extolled the democratic revolutions in the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia, the ongoing U.S. support for the repressive Uzbek regime of Islam Karimov stands as yet another example of the crass double standard in U.S. policy.

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