Uzbekistan has suffered quarter of a
century of terrible misrule
Tomorrow the people of Uzbekistan will mark 25 years
since their country’s independence from the Soviet Union. Until this week it
appeared that they would have little to celebrate. That changed with reports
yesterday that the long and brutal rule of their president, Islam Karimov, may
at last be near its end.
Wedged between the
Kazakh steppe and the mountains of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan has for most of Mr
Karimov’s tenure been one of Asia’s nastiest dictatorships. He has created a
police state worthy of the Stasi. He has authorised torture on a mass scale and
the use of live fire…
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