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lennart
03-12-03, 01:47
Uzbek Muslim Boiled To Death By US Ally Karimov
Dec 02, 2003
Source: Reuters

Muzafar Avazov's teeth were smashed and his fingernails ripped out by the time he died -- but the head of the Uzbek jail where he was killed says the prison is like a health farm.

"Prisoners live in comfort, eat scrumptious food and play soccer. All is great," said Colonel Alikhaidar Kolumbetov, sitting in a throne-like black and gold armchair. "With time, we want to make it all like in Europe here," he told Reuters journalists who were allowed to visit Jaslik prison in Uzbekistan's western desert.

But Avazov's mother, who lives in a leafy area of the capital Tashkent 1,000 km (620 miles) away, does not believe him. "Look what they did to my son in Jaslik. They tortured him in the basement and boiled him in hot water," said 61-year-old Fatima Mukadyrova, tears in her eyes, displaying photographs of a mutilated body with severe burns, cuts and bruises.

The pictures clearly showed that the 36-year-old Avazov had no nails on his hands and feet and nearly all of his teeth had been broken.

"Security officers wanted to bury the body quickly to avoid publicity. I said Muzafar's unborn son should see his father, in any shape. So his other son took these photos."

Uzbekistan enjoys warm ties with Washington in return for its support for the U.S.-led war in neighbouring Afghanistan. But human rights activists say repression and torture are rife.

Death

Human Rights Watch (HRW) estimates there are at least 6,000 political and religious prisoners in Uzbekistan. It has reported more than 10 deaths from torture in jails since November 2001.

"We document...torture of minors, of children, torture of people that has been repeated because they raised these issues in court," said Matilda Bogner, HRW office director in Uzbekistan. "Unfortunately, that continues to be systematic."

After visiting Uzbekistan and Jaslik prison last year, the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Theo van Boven, confirmed that the use of torture was "systematic".

Kolumbetov dismissed his findings. "Van Boven published a completely untrue report," he said. "He praised our cleanliness and order, and then published this balderdash. He was prejudiced."

Like a third of Jaslik's inmates, Muzafar Avazov was imprisoned on political charges -- that authorities said he was a religious extremist.

President Islam Karimov, who has led Uzbekistan since Soviet times, refuses to condemn torture, saying he must be tough to halt militant Islam in his Muslim nation.

And Kolumbetov angrily denied there had been any torture in his prison at all -- any injuries arose from fights between ordinary criminals and political prisoners, in which they threw hot tea at each other. "Then they died from the resulting illnesses," he said.

Tough Treatment

Kolumbetov prevented Reuters from meeting many of the prisoners, but Nodir Sarimsakov, an emaciated pious Muslim serving 16 years for "undermining the constitutional order" confirmed torture was commonplace.

"Until five or six months ago, beatings and even killings occurred in this prison," he said.

Torture seemed to be doing little to halt the appeal of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir party, which wants a pan-Islamic state run by religious law.

One group of Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters inside Jaslik could not be stopped from expressing their hatred of Karimov's friendly relations with U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

"Are you from Reuters? Britain? Then tell Blair and Bush that when we build our Islamic state we will hold them accountable for Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and for their support of the killing of Muslims in Chechnya and Uzbekistan," said Akram Ikromov, a 29-year-old sentenced to 18 years.

"Allah Akbar! (God is Great!)," the group chanted, waving clenched fists in the air, and all an enraged Kolumbetov could do was look on.

yahya ayash
03-12-03, 13:43
la hawla wa la quwatta illa billah

lennart
03-12-03, 15:50
De Hizb ut-Tahrir is wel een interessante beweging... ze voeren een jihad voor Islamistische staat in centraal Azie.. een vreedzame Jihad... Alleen met "mensen" als Karimov vraag ik mij af hoe lang die Jihad nog vreedzaam zal zijn.

Stuk over HUT: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/EK25Ag01.html

yahya ayash
03-12-03, 16:24
Insjallah zal de Kaukasus verlost worden van de greep van de tirannen.

TonH
03-12-03, 18:42
Uzbekistan is het enige land waar ik geweest ben waar je de angst echt overal op straat voelt. Het is een in en in smerig regime.
Dat de VS dit tot zijn bondgenoot, met alle privileges van dien, in die regio heeft gemaakt heeft zo veel kwaad bloed gezet. Intern, maar zeker ook in de omringende landen.

Op de HRW-site staan nog wat 'leuke' citaten van deze 'vriend-van-het-vrije-westen':

"The OSCE focuses only on establishment of democracy, the protection of human rights and the freedom of the press. I am now questioning these values." - President Karimov, after the OSCE criticized the 1999 parliamentary elections. Agence France-Presse, January 8, 2000.

"Such people must be shot in the forehead! If necessary, I'll shoot them myself…!" - President Karimov, upon the 1998 adoption of a highly restrictive religion law, warning parliament not to be soft on "Islamic extremists." Many peaceful Muslims have also been rounded up in the sweeps of "fundamentalists." BBC Monitoring report of Uzbek Radio second program, May 1, 1998.

"I'm prepared to rip off the heads of 200 people, to sacrifice their lives, in order to save peace and calm in the republic…If my child chose such a path, I myself would rip off his head." - President Karimov reacting to acts of violence in Uzbekistan in March 1999. The government originally blamed the incidents, including a bus hijacking, on "criminals" and later on "Islamic extremists." Agence France-Presse, April 2, 1999.

:droef:

Hudhaifa
03-12-03, 22:39
Vreemd dat er zo weinig mediaaandacht omtrent dit gebied is...


zucht... :droef:

TonH
04-12-03, 00:07
Geplaatst door Hudhaifa
Vreemd dat er zo weinig mediaaandacht omtrent dit gebied is...


zucht... :droef:

Dit is bijna zeker ook één van de redenen:


Uzbekistan: Russian delegation seeks greater cooperation in OIL and GAS

Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS

Tashkent, 28 November: On 28 November the Russian Union of Oil and Gas producers and the Uzbekneftegaz [Uzbek oil and gas] national holding company signed a memorandum on cooperation in [the Uzbek capital] Tashkent. It was the result of a three-day visit to Uzbekistan by the Russian delegation led by Yuriy Shafranik, the chairman of the Union.

The delegation included leaders of [Russia's gas giant] Gazprom, RAO
"UES of Russia " [Russian joint stock company, Unified Energy System of Russia], the Union of Oil and Gas producers, service companies and other enterprises working in the oil and gas sector of the Russian Federation.

Shafranik and the delegation accompanying him held talks with Abdusalom Azizov, the chairman of Neftegaz, and Rustam Azimov, the Uzbek deputy prime minister and economy minister.

The chairman of the Union was received by Uzbek Prime Minister Otkir
Sultonov. At the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the development
of, and prospects for, cooperation between Russian oil and gas companies and Uzbek partners, and the development of oil and gas fields in Uzbekistan. They discussed, in particular, the delivery of new equipment to Uzbekistan and the restoration of producing fields.

In a conversation with an ITAR-TASS correspondent, Shafranik said that
the sides' conclusion was that long-term projects would not have financial problems these days. "We can attract virtually any sum of money to develop the republic's [oil and gas] fields," he said.

Source: ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, in Russian 1647 gmt 28 Nov 03

'The Great Game' wordt nog altijd gespeeld.

Hamza-T
04-12-03, 01:57
In Oezbekistan word niet met wapens gestreden Lennart, die partij gebruikt alleen het woord.
Als ze de wapens op zouden willen nemen, hadden ze dat allang gedaan.