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	Refugees Put Uzbek Dead In Thousands
		As reports continued to come in of clashes spreading outside the town of Andizhan, a sergeant in charge of the bridge at the border village of Kara Suu said he believed that 2,000 had been massacred during three days.
		The arsenal at Andizhan prison was looted of rifles and grenades, according to witnesses.
		Gunfire was again reported in Andizhan last night prompting fears that Uzbek forces were flushing armed militants from their boltholes around the town for a final assault.
	www.rense.com /general65/dead.htm (600 words)

	Andijan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andijan (Andijon in Uzbek; also Andizhan, Andizan, Андижан) is the fourth-largest city in Uzbekistan, and the capital of the Andijan Province.
		The people's pronunciation is like the literary language since the works of Mir Ali-Sher Nawa'i, although he was raised in Herat, are in this language.
		Khwaja Yusuf, who is famous for music, was from Andizhan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andijan (726 words)

	Kyrgyzstan: Refugees in need of a safe haven - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Though in accordance with this principle the names of the persons in the camp should be kept confidential, disturbingly, lists of the persons in the camp, including their addresses in Uzbekistan, are believed to have been handed over to the Uzbekistani security services by Kyrgyz officials who had access to them.
		Hundreds of people fled Andizhan in the aftermath of the violence and tried to make their way to Kyrgyzstan on foot, reportedly walking in several large groups throughout the night to reach the border.
		The Uzbekistani authorities have publicly accused those who fled Andizhan to be members and supporters of Akramia and banned Islamic groups, such as Hizb-ut-Tahrir and IMU, and to have attempted to organize the violent uprising in Andizhan with a view to establishing an Islamic State in Uzbekistan.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engeur580082005 (7448 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Court Finds 15 Uzbeks Guilty of Andizhan "Terrorism"
		The defendants accused of terrorism, murder of officials and other serious crimes during an uprising in the eastern city of Andijan on May 13 listen in the defendant's cage during the reading of the court verdict in Tashkent, 14 November 2005.
		In criticism likely to be echoed by Western countries, a human rights campaigner at the court in the capital Tashkent said the case had been a show trial used to cover up the massacre of civilians by government troops.
		Witnesses in Andizhan on May 13, including a Reuters reporter, said Uzbek troops fired at a crowd of men, women and children who had gathered in the main square after armed men broke 23 local businessmen out of jail.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-11-14/34586.html (532 words)

	Uzbekistan: Only an independent investigation will reveal the truth of recent violence - news.amnesty - Amnesty ...
		Amnesty International strongly condemns the reported use of excessive force against civilians in Andizhan (Andijan) and calls on the authorities of Uzbekistan to allow a prompt and independent investigation into the events with the results made public and those responsible brought to justice.
		Amnesty International is greatly concerned that the Uzbekistani authorities will use the events in Andizhan to justify a further clampdown on dissent and freedom of expression in Uzbekistan and that this will lead to waves of arbitrary arrests nationwide in the name of “national security” and the “war against terror”.
		Reports as to what triggered the events in Andizhan are confusing but may have been linked to the trial of 23 local businessmen accused of "Islamic extremism".
	news.amnesty.org /index/ENGEUR620082005 (768 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan
		Washington seems uneasy that the Uzbek inquiry over Andizhan events may come up with findings that cast aspersions on the "war on terror" in Afghanistan, which the George W Bush administration has touted as a success.
		After the Andizhan events, the negotiations over the base are yet to resume.
		This may appear to be a limited space on the vast Central Asian landscape, but the valley accounts for a quarter of the entire region's population and is shared uneasily between Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/GF16Ag01.html (1634 words)

	Gov.uz – New update on events in Andizhan
		Due to latest events, The President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov arrived in the city of Andizhan early in the morning of May 13th.
		After the comprehensive study of the situation, the head of the state, gave specific instructions to corresponding organizations and government bodies.
		As it was earlier reported, a group of armed men attacked the guards on duty of the patrol-sentry service and the military unit in Andizhan city between 00.30 and 01.00 am local time on 13 May.
	www.gov.uz /en/content.scm?contentId=12614 (236 words)

	Uzbekistan: new Andizhan regional leader promises constant gas and light - Ferghana.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Among other promises Begaliyev made, he told residents of Andizhan that gas would be available to every household this winter, with the pressure sufficient for central heating and cooking.
		Pickets on highways and in front of the local authorities' residences were the only way for women in Andizhan to went their indignation over wage arrears, regular power outages, and - most importantly - total absence of gas in tenements.
		Obidov was relieved of his duties at the meeting of the Andizhan regional council on the pretext of "another assignment" on May 25.
	enews.ferghana.ru /4printer.php?id=539 (617 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Uzbeks Rap Neighbour Kyrgyzstan over Andizhan Riot
		Ties between the Central Asian neighbours were already tense after Kyrgyzstan took in hundreds of refugees from Andizhan, where witnesses said at least 500 people were killed during a May riot, and allowed the United Nations to evacuate them to Europe.
		Human rights bodies have said the Andizhan uprising was triggered by political repression and widespread poverty.
		Russia and China backed the use of force in Andizhan, while the U.S. military was given six months to leave a key Uzbek airbase after Washington repeatedly called for an independent international inquiry into the killings.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-9-15/32355.html (522 words)

	Uzbekistan: Lifting the siege on the truth about Andizhan Summary
		They believe that they were targeted because as entrepreneurs they were successful and reportedly very popular within the local community because they had created thousands of jobs in the area, had a reputation for treating their employees well and regularly donated funds to good causes.
		The 23 entrepreneurs arrested in Andizhan were reportedly subjected to a number of serious human rights violations while held in pre-trial detention, including being held in incommunicado detention, denied regular access to their lawyers or to their relatives and subjected to torture or other ill-treatment to force them to “confess”.
		Amnesty International is concerned by reports that human rights defenders, independent journalists and members of the political opposition have been targeted, intimidated and detained in an effort to prevent their reports from reaching the outside world, or to prevent them from engaging in protest activity.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=ENGEUR620232005 (2503 words)

	Andizhan Children's Fund offers hope to disabled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Suffering from arthritis, a debilitating disease of the joints, the 43-year-old mother of four living in the village of Gulistan in the eastern Uzbek province of Andizhan could barely move, much less take care of herself.
		They earn US $8 to $50 a month according to their output, while the average salary in the rural area is just $4.
		In Andizhan Province alone, 1.29 percent of the population was disabled: thus, of the province's population of nearly 2.5 million, 30,000 were disabled.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=37508 (888 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Kyrgyzstan arrests Andizhan uprising suspects
		They confessed that they are members of Akromiya and that they were linked to the Andizhan events," said an SNB officer responsible for media contacts.
		In May 2005, witnesses in Andizhan estimated troops killed hundreds when they fired on a large crowd of people who had gathered in the centre of town near a government building seized by armed men.
		The unrest was prompted by the jailbreak of 23 Muslim businessmen who were on trial in Andizhan for religious extremism and accused of creating Akromiya, which the authorities say is an extremist sect.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=1050582006 (509 words)

	Bishkek - Andizhan
		Our plan for this day was simple - to reach Andizhan city that was 15 km ahead, spend there three or four hours and then make another 50 km to Osh - a city in Kirgizstan from where we could fly right home to Novosibirsk.
		This plan was changed because of another serious break of my friend's bicycle that occurred twenty minutes after the start.
		We wanted to go to Osh by train, but on the railroad station discovered that there were no trains in that direction.
	www.velotourism.ru /reports/Bishkek_Andizhan.htm (2887 words)

	AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
		Both international organizations are renewing their calls for an independent international investigation into the Andizhan events as the first trial of those charged by the Uzbekistani authorities in connection with the Andizhan events is scheduled to get underway.
		Saidzhakhon Zainabitdinov was present in Andizhan on 13 May and gave the international media an account of the events, providing a stark contrast to the official version of events.
		According to reports he was arbitrarily detained by law enforcement officers on 21 May and was held in police custody in Andizhan.
	www.geocities.com /jack_rossi_1/truth_under_siege.html (822 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Uzbekistan: Andizhan - Impunity must not prevail
		Dozens were named in the indictments and verdicts in the first trial related to the Andizhan events, accused of conspiring with terrorists to overthrow the constitutional order of Uzbekistan.
		Scores of people suspected of involvement in the Andizhan events have been sentenced to long prison terms, the vast majority in closed or secret trials, in violation of international fair trial standards.
		The May events in Andizhan continued to be used as a pretext for tightening restrictions on freedom of expression in the name of national security and the "war on terror".
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6PPDGE?OpenDocument (3897 words)

	Ferghana.Ru Central Asia Information Agency
		I'm convinced that what happened in Andizhan was impossible without some serious preparations and the experience gunmen had accumulated in Afghanistan and other hot spots.
		Following the events in Andizhan (Uzbekistan) this May, media outlets hastened to pin the blame for the massacre involving seizure of administrative structures and military garrisons on IMU gunmen.
		A trade company with the turnover amounting to $500,000 was established at Djami, the central mosque in Andizhan where the famous Abduvali-kori Mirzayev served as the imam.
	enews.ferghana.ru /detail.php?id=341758241758.24,594,11793949 (2143 words)

	Uzbekistan: After the Andizhan and Pakhtabad massacres
		Not accidentally, Andizhan is less than a hundred kilometers from the city of Osh, in Kyrghizia, which only weeks ago was the centre of the so called “tulip” or “yellow” revolution, which led to the collapse of the Kyrghiz government.
		They quoted one of the army commanders, who said that the horror began when “about 200 bandits and Islamic extremists with their relatives attacked and disarmed a police squadron by bribing the officer in charge.” They then attacked the prison, releasing several hundred of the inmates, and took the Mayor’s bodyguards hostage.
		The Akromist group in Andizhan is a local variation of Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose main aim is to create an “Islamic environment” by setting up small businesses to help members of the group to find work.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2005/06/06uzbekistan.html (3794 words)

	Khilafah.com - Uzbekistan jail another 41 for Andizhan rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		International human rights watchdogs said it was "a show trial" staged to cover up the truth about Andizhan where some 500 protesters, including many women and children, were killed by government forces, according to witness accounts.
		The Uzbek authorities maintain that Andizhan was attacked by "foreign-paid terrorists" seeking to establish an Islamic caliphate in the fertile but densely populated and impoverished Ferghana Valley shared by Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
		Tashkent has also told European members of NATO that they will not be able to use its airspace or territory for operations linked to peacekeeping in neighbouring Afghanistan.
	www.khilafah.com /home/category.php?DocumentID=12510&TagID=2 (579 words)

	The Hindu : International : Russian support for Uzbekistan
		On May 13 militants in Andizhan launched a series of terrorist attacks against police and military stations and took a number of hostages.
		"The planners and organisers (of the Andizhan events) used the same religious radicals and extremists whom...
		Karimov allowed the U.S. to deploy an airbase in Uzbekistan, but after Andizhan he imposed severe restrictions on U.S. transport planes' flights forcing the Pentagon to re-deploy the aircraft to Afghanistan.
	www.hindu.com /2005/07/02/stories/2005070200471900.htm (429 words)

	RIA Novosti - World - UZBEKISTAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES ISLAMIC RADICALS OF ANDIZHAN RIOT
		Karimov said he had held talks with the man leading the group that had seized the administration building, who had declined to give his name.
		According to President Karimov, he was in Andizhan at 7.30 this morning and immediately came into talks with the rebels.
		A group of gunmen raided the prison and several administrative buildings in Andizhan on Friday.
	en.rian.ru /world/20050514/40302771.html (559 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| May 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Yahoo: Some 500 ...
		NATO Secretary-General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer on June 2 condemned reported use of excessive force by Uzbek troops in the eastern town of Andizhan and NATO parliamentarians urged member states to halt support for the Uzbek armed forces unless a probe was conducted.
		NATO Secretary-General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer on Tuesday condemned reported use of excessive force by Uzbek troops in the eastern town of Andizhan and NATO parliamentarians urged member states to halt support for the Uzbek armed forces unless a probe was conducted.
		A group of U.S. senators has called the Andizhan bloodshed a "massacre," but Karimov enjoys support from Russia and China, both of which have said they believe that "external forces" were behind the Andizhan revolt.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2032304.html (1220 words)

	Interfax Central Asia General Newswire. \| Business (International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		May 13 (Interfax) - Rights organizations in Andizhan said on Friday the Uzbek city "is in a state of anarchy" and the city and "is surrounded by government troops," who are "apparentlygetting ready to storm" Andizhan.
		"We, the representatives of rights organizations of Andizhan, call on our government to take all measures to prevent further bloodshed and solve problems by purely political means," the organizations said in a statement.
		May 13 (Interfax) - The situation in the Uzbek town of Andizhan is under control, the Uzbek president's press service told Interfax.
	www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/420935-1.html (654 words)

	JTW Interview - "The Andizhan Massacre may Only Challenge What Happened in New York on September 11"
		It is these correspondents who enabled the international community to at least come closer to the understanding of what had happened in Andizhan and to discover from the survivors' stories what happened there afterwards.
		So, whenever I was stopped in Andizhan, I always said that I had talked "with your president" and he had "guaranteed me security and no restrictions." It worked almost invariably, save for the last checkpoint where I made a mistake.
		History of America is divided into life before and after September 11, and the events in Andizhan on May 13 also divided history of the country into before and after.
	www.turkishweekly.net /interview.php?id=82 (2461 words)

	RIA Novosti - World - TASHKENT SURPRISED BY STRAW'S COMMENTS ON ANDIZHAN
		"Everything that happened in Andizhan was fully and openly dwelt upon during a May 14 news conference given by the president of Uzbekistan," the foreign ministry says.
		On Saturday, Jack Straw, on behalf of the UK Government, condemned the actions of Uzbek authorities and police in Andizhan.
		Straw said he was deeply concerned by allegations that the Uzbek authorities opened fire on protesters in the city.
	en.rian.ru /world/20050515/40354756.html (307 words)

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		Extradition request for 12 alleged former detainees from Andizhan prison.
		One of the refugees in the camp told a Reuters correspondent on 23 June that his younger brother, who he said was mentally disabled, had given in to pressure from the MNB and had voluntarily returned to Andizhan.
		Akramia of attempting to organize the protests in Andizhan with a view to establishing an Islamic state in Uzbekistan.
	www.geocities.com /jack_rossi_1/kyrgyzstan_refugees.html (7067 words)

	Andizhan Region Map: Abdubay — Zita-Kashka \| Uzbekistan Google Satellite Maps
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	www.maplandia.com /uzbekistan/andizhan (789 words)

	JTW News -
		Only a few journalists made it to the forbidden city past absurd bureaucratic barriers, shams staged for foreigners, and checkpoints all around Andizhan.
		Yola Monakhova: I was in Nizhny Novgorod on May 13, Friday, and in Tashkent early in the morning on May 15.
		Yola Monakhova: The trip to Andizhan was a serious ordeal demanding maturity and realism.
	www.turkishweekly.net /news.php?id=12157 (2404 words)

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