COMMENT: What in the hell is wrong with people? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/nyregion/10powder.html November 10, 2009 Powder Sent to 3 U.N. Foreign Missions By DERRICK HENRY A white powder was mailed to three United Nations foreign missions in Manhattan office buildings on Monday, but no one was harmed by it, the police said. The powder, delivered in envelopes, was reported by workers at the [...]...
Musafirbek says that the president of Uzbekistan officially thanked the cotton-growers for gathering the harvest of this strategic product for Uzbekistan. However, those who sweat away, collecting this cotton (including children) were not mentioned in the president’s address.
Dafydd reports that the EU has lifted the arms embargo on Uzbekistan. Reasons given are abolishment of the death penalty and release of political prisoners.
MANILA, Nov. 6 (PNA)-- Filipino Grandmaster Mark Paragua turned back IM Dzhurabek Khamrakulov but his efforts were not good enough to power the seventh- seed Philippine chess team to a higher notch.
Craig John Murray (born 17 October 1958) is a human rights activist, writer, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Rector of the University of Dundee and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster School of Law. While at the embassy in Tashkent, he accused the Karimov administration of human rights abuses, a step which, he argued, was against the wishes of the British government...
by TAMMY ROSECRANS , Causecast Editor Uzbekistan is a country riddled with humanitarian crises. The authoritarian government is known for its lack of an independent judicial branch and wide spread human rights abuses against civilians and activists. October 27, it was announced that the European Union has lifted its embargo on the country. The EU placed the sanctions following the Andijan Massacre...
The decision to end sanctions in spite of human rights concerns could help the EU forge ties with the country, which can provide a military route to Afghanistan and a new source of energy
(Brussels) - The European Union's decision today to lift the arms embargo against Uzbekistan despite its atrocious human rights record is an unconscionable abdication of responsibility toward Uzbek victims of abuse, Human Rights Watch, International Crisis Group, and Reporters Without Borders said today. The decision underscores the EU's lack of resolve in the face of Uzbekistan's intransigence and...
Luxembourg - The European Union on Tuesday dropped the arms embargo it imposed on Uzbekistan after the massacre of Andijan in 2005, saying that the Central Asian state had pledged to improve its record on human rights. EU member states welcome the c...
This was done in all of our names and we should all, individually, be deeply and profoundly ashamed: We were receiving CIA intelligence. MI-6 and the CIA share all their intelligence. So I was getting all the CIA intelligence on Uzbekistan and it was saying that detainees had confessed to membership in al-Qaeda and being in training camps in Afghanistan and to meeting Osama bin Laden. One way and...
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