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Op de bovenste foto ziet u president George Bush blij de hand schudden van Islam Karimov, sinds 1989 de machtigste man van de Centraal-Aziatische republiek Oezbekistan, eerst als 'communist,' sinds 1991 als 'democraat.' Op de foto eronder ziet u een van de doodgemartelde Oezbeekse slachtoffers van het Karimov-regime. De man, vader van vier kinderen, heeft geen vingernagels meer en is over zijn hele lichaam verbrand door gloeiendheet water. President Karimov is een bondgenoot van het Westen in de strijd tegen 'het terrorisme,' en wordt daarvoor beloond met financiele en militaire steun. Het Westen is op de hoogte van de martelpraktijken in Oezbekistan. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/12/20/german12337.htm De Britse Independent bericht: 'Ex-Envoy to Uzbekistan Goes Public on Torture. Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has defied the Foreign Office by publishing on the internet documents providing evidence that the British Government knowingly received information extracted by torture in the "war on terror". Mr. Murray, who publicly raised the issue of the usefulness of information obtained under torture before he was forced to leave his job last year, submitted his forthcoming book, Murder in Samarkand, to the Foreign Office for clearance. But the Foreign Office demanded that he remove references to two sensitive government documents, which undermine official denials, to show that Britain had been aware it was receiving information obtained by the Uzbek authorities through torture. Rather than submit to the gagging order Mr. Murray decided to publish the material on the internet. The first document published by Mr. Murray contains the text of several telegrams that he sent to London from 2002 to 2004, warning that the information being passed on by the Uzbek security services was torture-tainted, and challenging MI6 claims that the information was nonetheless "useful". The second document is the text of a Foreign Office legal opinion which argues that the use by intelligence services of information extracted through torture is not a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture.' Lees verder: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105C.shtml Of: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article335678.ece En: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3944.htm, http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/telegrams.pdf, http://www.bloggerheads.com/