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It just underscores the blowhard righteousness of neo-conservatives and their bullshit pseudo-altruism, discovered in their hearts only AFTER we couldn't find WMDs. Bush's turning of a blind eye to this bulldozes any argument the theo-cons had that we invaded Iraq to bring 'liberty and democracy' to a terrorized nation. It's nothing but the same old meaningless rhetoric. The same old "he's Vlad Tepes but he's OUR Vlad Tepes, har har" defense that kept bastards like Saddam Hussein in power in the first place.
The human rights abuses there are absolutely staggering.
In addition to hundreds of reports of beatings and numerous accounts of the use of electric shock, temporary suffocation, hanging by the ankles or wrists, removal of fingernails, and punctures with sharp objects, Human Rights Watch received credible reports in 2000 that police sodomized male detainees with bottles, raped them, and beat and burned them in the groin area. Male and female detainees were regularly threatened with rape. Police made such threats in particular against female detainees in the presence of male relatives to force the men to sign self-incriminating statements. Police also regularly threatened tomurder detainees or their family members and to place minor children in orphanages. Self-incriminating testimony obtained through torture was routinely admitted by judges, who cited this as evidence, often the only evidence, to convict. Courts did not initiate investigations into allegations of mistreatment by police.
So yeah, I'd say whatever revolution Karimov gets, he pretty much deserves. |
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