Comments on: Gunmen Storm Prison in Andijon

By: Winds of Change.NET

Winds of Change.NET — Mon, 16 May 2005 04:38:26 +0000

Monday Winds of War: May 16/05

Unrest in Uzbekistan; Flushing Newsweek; Get some Hellfire; Enriching Iran; US interferes in Iran; Is/Hezb deathmatch; Saudi democracy in action; Yemeni cell jugged; Egypt just says no to the Muslim Brotherhood; Airplane!; Fake badges and visas; Flight…

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Fri, 13 May 2005 12:03:16 +0000

Nathan, glad to see you are up and on the story. Here’s what will probably be my last bit on this for now – http://scrapsofmoscow.blogspot.com/2005/05/russian-pundits-and-one-unnamed-expert.html – a selection of comments (translated by RIA Novosti) from Russian experts on Central Asia. Some of their comments are pretty interesting.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:56:20 +0000

Lyndon, please keep the comments coming! Thank you all of you for your updates!

By: Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution

Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:45:31 +0000

[...] protestors desire for peaceful protest. This is all occuring in the city of Andijan, and Nathan is reporting that over 100 gunmen have seized a prison in the city and released approximately 3000 prisone [...]

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:34:44 +0000

The person shot near the Israeli embassy was a mentally ill, unemployed Russian, according to Lenta.ru – http://lenta.ru/news/2005/05/13/terrorist/

And I was wrong about RIA Novosti, they actually have lots of stuff about the Andijan situation in English (including forecasts of what Karimov will do from Russian analysts) if you scroll down a bit on their English-language page (I mentioned it before, but it’s here – http://en.rian.ru/ – just in case).

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:31:03 +0000

OK, sorry to flood the comments section, but here’s the most recent item (40 minutes old at this point) I’ve translated from RIA Novosti: http://scrapsofmoscow.blogspot.com/2005/05/uzbekistan-update-2.html

This might be useful for those of you who are there and have internet access but can’t read the Russian. RIAN’s English-language page is here – http://en.rian.ru/ – but they don’t have too many current stories in English on the Andijan situation.

They do, however, have a page with all of their articles (in Russian) about the situation: http://www.rian.ru/trend/uzbekistan_situation_130505/

By: Nair

Nair — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:28:29 +0000

And what about the murder near Israeli Embassy? It seems it was a police mistake, I have read in mosnews that. I think that the incident may be not connected with the incidents in Andijan, Laura

By: Asalka

Asalka — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:21:50 +0000

BBC and CNN are currently being blocked from the Kamalak-TV cable service in my Tashkent apartment (they’re showing things like “Dallas” in Uzbek instead). I’m still getting Russian stations but haven’t seen any news on them. Wouldn’t doubt it if the Russian stations switch over to fluff once it’s time for the evening news. Contrary to what David says above, I feel that there are tons of militsiya on the street. I saw about one every 10-15 feet all along Nukusskaya Street and up to Parkentskiy Bazaar.

By: Captain's Quarters

Captain's Quarters — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:12:09 +0000

Uzbekistan Crumbling; Islamists Poised To Take Over?

A mob of outraged and disaffected Uzbeks have freed 23 Muslim defendants from the prison where they awaited trial on terrorism charges, and created a riot in the streets of Andijan. Soldiers have been taken hostage and the government has…

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:05:31 +0000

David, it looks like there is a news blackout even of Russian channels – this story from RIA Novosti only mentions NTV, but the other report I translated mentioned news bulletins on other Russian channels being blocked as well. Here’s the RIA article in English: “FOREIGN BROADCASTING SUDDENLY INTERRUPTED IN UZBEKISTAN” – http://en.rian.ru/world/20050513/39976873.html

Hang in there.