NEWS: UZBEKISTAN BUSH CLOSE FRIEND & ALLY GUNS DOWN OWN PEOPLE, WOMEN & CHILDREN IN COLD BLOODED MURDER MASSACRE!!!!!
This is one of Bush's closest friend and ally. A COMPLETE CRIMINAL MURDEROUS THUG!!!! Just like BUSH, his best friend.
Uzbeks bury dead after troops fire on protesters
Sun May 15, 2005 09:26 AM ET
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Witnesses describe bloodbath outside Uzbek school
By Dmitry Solovyov
ANDIZHAN, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - Families of the hundreds killed when Uzbek troops opened fire to quell protests in Andizhan buried their dead on Sunday as witnesses told of bloody mayhem in which women and children were gunned down.
"They shot at us like rabbits," a boy in his late teens said recalling the horror of troops rampaging through the town square on Friday where some 3,000 protesters had rallied in support of rebels holed up in a state building with police hostages.
A Russian news agency also reported that Uzbek troops had fired on civilians trying to flee into neighboring Kyrgyzstan to escape the violence in their homeland.
Uzbekistan's autocratic president, Islam Karimov, said on Saturday no order had been given to troops to fire in Andizhan. He said he had forbidden the use of force against women, children and the elderly.
Karimov, a close ally in the U.S. war on terrorism since giving Washington an airbase in 2001, said 10 police and troops had been killed and a higher number of rebels had also died. He gave no figure for civilians killed.
But two days after an uprising in the mostly Muslim Central Asian state's Ferghana Valley, blood and body parts could still be seen on sidewalks and in gutters in the center of this leafy city of 300,000 people.
The facade of the two-storey School No. 15, the scene witnesses said of a massacre of civilians and police being held hostage, was pockmarked with at least 20 bullet holes.
Pools of wet blood mixed with water and dirt could be seen in the blocked open drains. A blood-soaked baseball cap lay in bushes.
Andizhan violence started early on Friday when armed rebels freed from prison comrades standing trial for religious extremism. They took 10 police hostage and occupied Andizhan's local government building backed by thousands of sympathizers.
Human rights campaigner Saidzhakhon Zainabitdinov estimated up to 500 people may have been killed in the ensuing operation to crush the protests, which would make it the bloodiest incident in Uzbekistan's post-Soviet history.
Witnesses said that on Saturday, when soldiers started removing bodies, a handful of wounded tried to get away but were shot dead on the spot. "Those wounded who tried to get away were finished with single shots from a Kalashnikov rifle," said one witness, a businessman. "Three or four soldiers were assigned to killing the wounded."
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