Uzbekistan: Another Domino?

Published May 18, 2005

The figure of five hundred dead sounds suspiciously round, but it will stick. The regime's troops fired heavy machine-guns into the crowd of protesting Uzbekistanis in the eastern city of Andijan last Friday and launched rockets from helicopters: the death toll was certainly at least in the low hundreds. Besides, practically everybody hates President Islam Karimov (who gave himself another term in shamelessly rigged...