Just came across this article saying that one of the very last moves of the Bush administration was to designate Uzbekistan as one of the top 8 religious rights violators in the world.
It makes me sad that the Obama administration will probably completely ignore this because they ‘need’ to build an air force base there.
Here’s how the article kicks off:
If the only news you usually get is from CNN or Fox News, you are tragically missing out on what’s going on in the world.
There are about 29 million people in Uzbekistan, a country run by a KGB hitman thug. Karimov’s cruelty and lack of respect for his fellow man is mirrored down through the government at every level, and the most startling example is in Uzbek prisons.
From another blogger named Zack (I was signature # 156,821 on the petition):
We are facing a cultural crisis if President-elect Obama brings into legislation the Freedom of Choice Act. This law, if enacted, would wipe away every restriction on abortion nationwide. The Fight FOCA website explains,
I just came across yet another article about child labor in Uzbekistan*.
Here’s how it starts:
Despite signing two international treaties and adopting domestic legislation prohibiting the use of child labor, Uzbekistan continued to rely on a “state-orchestrated mass mobilization of children to bring in the 2008 cotton harvest,” a new report has found.
By the end of September, with the pace of cotton collection lagging way behind harvest projections, officials in some areas ordered students as young as first graders into the fields…
I witnessed this first-hand a couple of years ago. The human rights situation in Uzbekistan is terrible.
Please take time to pray for the country. Pray for their wicked president. Pray against all the corruption. Pray for God to remove the strongholds that make that place so terrible for the nationals. Pray for the missionaries there. Pray for the believers there. Pray for God’s kingdom to come…
Take a minute and read this article about human rights in Uzbekistan, a country of 30 million people run by a ruthless murderer.
Here’s an excerpt:
The case against Turgunov sends a chilling message to other activists that working for justice is a dangerous business in Uzbekistan. Despite the recent release of several other activists, new cases like this one show that any government critic will be dealt with harshly.
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