The Boston Globe, May 19th, 2005
AFTER THE security forces of Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov slaughtered unarmed civilians last week, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the United States deplored "the outbreak of violence, particularly by some members of a terrorist organization that were freed from prison." The tepid response makes President Bush's talk of helping to spread freedom and democracy sound like empty rhetoric. Eyewitnesses say Karimov's security forces fired into a large crowd of peaceful protesters Friday in the town of Andijan, pursuing and shooting survivors as they fled toward the border with Kyrgy...
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