An opposition leader said
Tuesday her party had compiled a list of 745 people
allegedly killed by government troops in Uzbekistan, the
highest estimate so far, and that many were shot in the
back of the head.
Nigara Khidoyatova, head of the (...)
The US says it is "deeply disturbed" by reports that troops in Uzbekistan fired on unarmed civilians during a protest in the east of the country.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called for political reform in the country following the (...)
President Islam Karimov claimed
Saturday that authorities had tried to negotiate a peaceful
end to protests, but that troops were forced to discharge a
deadly volley of gunfire into demonstrators to put down an
uprising.
Karimov told a news (...)
