Whom should I thank for such a popularity of my country in the list of totalitarian regimes?
Politics and Society, Uzbekistan4 Comments
Translation of post (RUS) by the author.
[inspic=143,left,250]Last week the British Guardian published a country profile on Uzbekistan where underlined that “President Islam Karimov is the harshest dictator in the former Soviet region.”
As popoular tabloid reminds, “political opponents of his regime have been murdered, tortured or committed to psychiatric institutions. Hundreds of protesters are thought to have been killed in a massacre at Andijan in 2005.” (To find out more about Andijan massacre, please follow here, here and here.
The above information is placed at the very beginning of the profile along with country’s history. Thus, millions of its readers first will find about dictatorship regime in our country and only after that will explore our rich culture, traditions, bnational cuisine and other achievements. Just for this we should express mentioned above person our gratitude…
p.s. If I were a reader of the Guardian I would immediately change the page for more positive story.
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Pretend to be Georgian instead – the Graun will love you then.
Or Moldovan.
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hmm, proud to be Uzbek… but u can pretend, as long as suggest this self-proved way of finding good place in the country of your present location
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Soon it will be four years… Hail to the brave martyrs of Andijan! Nothing is forgotten, no-one is forgotten and nothing is forgiven.
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