Over One Million To Flee Uzbekistan For Kyrgyzstan

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OVER ONE MILLION TO FLEE UZBEKISTAN FOR KYRGYZSTAN

MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - "More than one million people may flee Uzbekistan," Kyrgyzstan's human-rights commissioner Tursunbai Bakir Uulu told a press conference today, reports the country's Kabar news agency.

The Kyrgyz ombudsman has been watching Uzbek developments since 1991. In his words, popular unrest is not uncommon there. "But Uzbekistan is not Kyrgyzstan, which searches for peaceful ways of stopping popular uprisings. The President of Uzbekistan will use force to suppress popular unrest. Our country will then be filled to overflowing with Uzbek refugees," Tursunbai Bakir Uulu said.

"We must enlist the services of international organizations because the Kyrgyz economy won't make it possible to accommodate even 1,000 Uzbek refugees. We can only provide land plots for their traditional tents," Bakir Uulu added.

"The Uzbek-Kazakh border is sealed tight. Uzbekistan maintains tense relations with Tajikistan. This is why Uzbek refugees will once again pour into Kyrgyzstan," Bakir Uulu stressed.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20050517/40366398.html

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1. Another Look Into This

In 2002, the United States gave Uzbekistan $500m (€396m) in aid (as opposed to $36m (€28.5m) four years earlier) of which $120m (€95.1) went to the army and $79m (€62.5m) to the notorious SNB, Karimov's secret police. It was the SNB who boiled Muzafar Avazov, an Islamist activist, to death, having already beaten him severely and ripped his fingernails out.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=36&si=1397423&issue_id=12482&eid=123501

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2. Over one million people. Oh my, the power of Newsweek is astounding.

What say you now, "Pretty Boy" Scotty? :eyes: