The oppositional movement that called upon a non-violent rally to start on July 1, 2011, has recently renounced their ambitious plan that aimed to demand a dismissal of President Karimov as the illegitimate leader of the country.

As “Enough!ers” were calling people to gather around the buildings of district, regional khokimiyats and Independence Square in Tashkent on July 1 at 9 am; take supplies of food for several days, blankets, tents, radios, etc, they also kept a right to renounce their event in case authorities start looking for supporters of ETAR! in Uzbekistan, humiliate, or pressure them provide a list of other sympathizers. The initial call at Yangi Dunyo blog and article at different informational websites made them #1 organization daring to remove an old dictator from his throne by actual means — peaceful protests and calls upon non-violent resistance everywhere.

For many reasons the movement itself was considered as a provocative act by local security services. For some other reasons a little group of people still wanted to believe that there is a real revolutionary power behind the eloquent title, even behind mystical “group of 25-30 young people” how they called themselves.

Apart from non-violent protest initiative ETAR! also asked those who have any information on monetary assets and properties of Uzbek authorities abroad to share it and help bring justice and punish criminals in high-ranking officials’ community.

“Business people are asked to feed the protesters. Personnel security agencies including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, National Security Council and the Army are asked to not obey criminal orders to use weapons in a peaceful protest. Amnesty guaranteed to all employees of law & enforcement agencies that switch to the opposition. Prosecutors be ready to prepare a warrant to arrest agents who resist or oppress a peaceful demonstration. The protesters should be organized and be on guard against the possible provocation, identify and neutralize possible provocateurs by linking hands with tape. National Security Council should prepare information on the availability of foreign assets of government members. Khokimiyats Employees, Government, deputies, senators are asked to join the protest.” From ETAR!’s Facebook page.

Unfortunately for them and for their supporters, ETAR! has renounced their initiative for the reason of:

“Due to incredible measures taken by the Uzbek authorities against our peaceful protest, [government's] suspicion of involvement in the organization of our people within the country, Karimov’s willingness to use weapons against peaceful demonstrators, we affirm the cancellation of our shares. We do not want to take responsibility for any possible provocation by the authorities as it was in the spring of 2005, in Andijan.”

Officials’ sighs of relief, sighs of disappointment of those who kept a hope somewhere deep inside. Or this could be just a provocation by secret services to show people how a-group-of-brave-young-men-decided-not-to-mess-with-a-wise-government. Anyway, this renouncing thing will breed debates on who? why? what? and why not?

ETAR!‘s Facebook will be deactivated within a few weeks. But its activists are still looking forward to receiving any kind of information on foreign properties of Uzbek officials. “We reserve the right to use them to initiate litigation for corrupt figures,” they say.

Their email is: etar2011 [at] gmail [dot] com. Just in case you have something to share with. Or let them know how coward it was to give a hope and take it away without giving a try.