Stamattina mi è andato di traverso il latte, leggendo sul vecchio numero dell'Economist (lo
leggo in ritardo di una settimana abbondante grazie alle nostre amate
poste) che l'ambasciatore inglese in Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, è
tornato in inghilterra per motivi di salute (motivo ufficiale) oppure
perché gli americani si sono arrabbiati perché a Murray era scappato
detto che in questo tempio della democrazia avessero bollito un paio di oppositori. Bollito.
BELIEVE one side of the story, and
Britain's ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, is something of a
martyr, brought home ignominiously for his blunt and brave criticism of
the torture, murder and beastliness that are commonplace under
President Islam Karimov's regime. Adding insult to injury, it was all
disguised with trumped-up charges of drinking, womanising and other
high jinks. The real reason, supposedly, was complaints by America,
which counts Uzbekistan as its most dependable ally in the region.
Unsurprisingly, British officials say
this is utter rubbish. Mr Murray is home for medical reasons
(depression, it is whispered). Far from stifling him, the government
endorses his criticisms. Indeed, his controversial speech accusing Mr
Karimov's regime of boiling two opponents to death is there, in full, in the Foreign Office's latest human rights report. [..]
The truth? Somewhere in between,
probably. People who know the story well say that Mr Murray was indeed
under acute pressure to temper his criticisms of his hosts,
particularly after a telegram to London in which he claimed that
Uzbekistan's human rights abuses were just as bad as those of Saddam
Hussein's Iraq.
Cerchiamo di ricordarcelo fra vent'anni, quando i "liberatori" scopriranno le fosse comuni di Karimov.
6:19:49 PM
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