Summary
The recent violence in Uzbekistan has resulted in greater instantaneous bloodshed since it achieved independence. Here, Nixey addresses the multitude of questions surrounding the event, particularly the source of it in terms of the political situation of the nation.
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Autocratic Scar
THE FERGHANA VALLEY IS A densely populated region of high volatility. Unrelieved poverty, increasing drug trafficking, low employment and a growing commitment to non-state sponsored forms of Islam separate it from the country at large. The violence of May 13 was confined to towns - particularly Andijon, a city of 30,000 - and villages of the Valley in the east, geographically separate from the rest of Uzbekistan. ...
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