Uzbekistan’s Growing Police State

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Uzbekistan’s Growing Police State

UNITED NATIONS - 31 May 2005

Back in 1996, I heard a Peace Corps volunteer in Feghana exclaim that if American workers were not paid their salaries on time, there would be riots all over.

But his Uzbek colleagues, university teachers did not see their salaries for months and waited patiently. They would say at least they have jobs, when so many are unemployed.

By 2004 people could not stay silent any more.

They have been picketing their factories, organizing impromptu demonstrations in the bazaars when government decided to raise taxes yet again.

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