Uzbekistan and Obama’s Indictable Commitment to Tyranny
It’s amazing to see the roundabout justifications in the media regarding the Obama administration’s increasingly close relationship with Uzbekistan and its monstrous dictator Islam Karimov. As I’ve written previously, the Uzbek government is one of the worst human rights violators in the world. The Bush administration supported the regime handsomely in order to have military bases there and help supply American troops in Afghanistan. The Karimov regime engaged in wretched abuses against individuals caught up in the Bush administration’s War on Terror, and became known for widespread torture, including boiling people alive and raping people with broken bottles. Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, wrote an important book on this.
The US-Uzbekistan relationship began to sour in part because of how widespread the international condemnation was for forming such a close and supportive alliance with such a monster. But lately, the Obama administration has been cozying back up to the dictator in their execution of the Afghan war. The State Department itself, in its latest report on Uzbekistan lists an inventory of human and civil rights abuses, including: “Instances of torture and mistreatment of detainees by security forces; incommunicado and prolonged detention; arbitrary arrest and detention; denial of due process and fair trial; restrictions on freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association; governmental control of civil society activity; restrictions on religious freedom including harassment and imprisonment of religious minority group members; and government-compelled forced labor in cotton harvesting.”
Secretary of State Clinton just visited with Karimov this week, barely a month after the Obama administration lifted sanctions on Uzbekistan which will allow the resumption of US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to the despot. The commentary on this “cozying up” and this latest Clinton visit is always apologetic, creatively assigning the utmost reluctance and goodwill to our dear leaders in the Obama camp. We hear about the administration trying to press Uzbekistan towards respect for human rights and democracy, as Human Rights Watch urged them to do just prior to Clinton’s departure. The Washington Post goes so far as to claim Clinton “chided” the Central Asian dictator on human rights. In public at least, her so-called chiding amounted to a pathetic, empty hint specifically aimed at media like the Postwould regurgitate it and frame it as an earnest attempt to save the Uzbek people from the terror their government has unleashed on them for years. She said, “Countries that make reforms to give their people the opportunities for political and economic participation that they demand and deserve will thrive. Those who do not will fall behind.” Ah, a ripe old tongue-lashing.
On the one hand, the politics of this is that it’s merely another example of Obama’s treacherous record of tenacious support for tyranny and state terrorism all around the world. The anointed one who flew into presidential politics four years ago on a golden chariot of peace and human rights, has consistently supported some of the worst dictators and sadistic abuses of basic rights of the individual, never mind his own foreign and domestic policies. Yet he still has approximately half of the electorate’s support, dipping below 50% only because of the recession. And whether he wins or loses in 2012, he will receive approximately half of the vote – the other half of course going to some Republican even more blatantly supportive of such tyranny. And some Obama supporters still see him as the champion of human rights that is so very much is not.
But pushing a bit further, in a country supposedly based on the rule of law, why in the world should our masters in the halls of power in Washington be getting away with any of this? I mean, the Obama administration has enough blood on its own hands for there to be criminal investigations for, say, the implementation of the war in Afghanistan, for example – or for its obstruction of justice for the crimes of his predecessors. But lending money, weapons, and diplomatic support to consistent human rights violators from Latin America to the Middle East to Central Asia shouldn’t just be a tenuous question of policy…it should be indictable.
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October 26th, 2011 at 8:52 am
“Instances of torture and mistreatment of detainees by security forces; incommunicado and prolonged detention; arbitrary arrest and detention; denial of due process and fair trial; restrictions on freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association; governmental control of civil society activity; restrictions on religious freedom including harassment and imprisonment of religious minority group members; and government-compelled forced labor in cotton harvesting.”
With the exception of the last item (and that will surely be coming in some form in the near future as well), all of this sounds like a short list of what's beginning to happen here in the UFSA with increasing and disturbing frequency.
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October 26th, 2011 at 11:54 am
What is amazing about all of this is. We the citzens, cant even arrest these tratiors put them on trial for being tyrants and abusing the law without getting our heads cracked open or being called a terrorist or being put on a terrorist list.
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Shows just how morally bankrupt Obammie and the United Socialist Slave States are.
Obammie and the USSA is every bit as bad as the old Soviet Union was.
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October 27th, 2011 at 10:48 am
Karimov is not as bad as the other dictators in the area: Kadyrov of Chechniya, Nasirbayev of Kazakhstan, or especially the late but not lamented Turkmenbashi.
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October 28th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
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Maybe they're not harvesting cotton, but prison labor in America, working for mere pennies per hour, has been slaving away for decades for private employers. There's a reason why America has the world's highest incarceration rate. Got to keep that prison industrial complex lubed and humming.
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BS. I live in Kazakhstan and and am married to a native Uzbek. To compare Nazarbayev with that creature in Tashkent is simply outrageous on every level. Kadyrov is another story. You have a point there; but don't go mindlessly grouping people together, like, say, Osama the Arab, Saddam the Arab, Muammar the Arab and all the Arabs caught in between as being responsible for all your many woes and the base causes of all your terrible shame. It's so American. Best to stay away from that.
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