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Note: The following text is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Uzbekistan Suicide Bombing CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS South / Central Asia - Uzbekistan 27 May 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 3 Apr 2009 UZBEKISTAN 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT U.S. Embassy Tashkent issued the following Warden Message on May 27: Uzbek officials today confirmed recent media reports of a suicide bombing in the city of Andijan in the Ferghana Valley region of Uzbekistan and an assault on a border post near the town of Khanabad on the Uzbek-Kyrgyz...

SAINT PETERSBURG: Hardline Uzbek President Islam Karimov thanked President Vladimir Putin here on Friday for Russia’s support after troops crushed an uprising last spring in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan in violence that drew international criticism. “The problems experienced by Uzbekistan in connection with the events in Andijan showed very clearly who is who,” Karimov said as he met Putin at a gathering in the Russian leader’s hometown of Saint Petersburg, timed to coincide with his 53rd birthday. “In this respect, Russia demonstrated its reliability... I am grateful for the support that we got then and that we are...

All day yesterday, Russian officials and President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, who was in Moscow, talked about what actually happened in Andijan. Karimov was convinced that the events in Andijan were the West's revenge on Uzbekistan for its independent foreign policy. According to the Russian leadership, they were the machinations of international terrorism. At the end, the leaders of Russia and Uzbekistan agreed that, in any case, Karimov's actions merited strong approval and support. Islam Karimov decided to tell the press the whole truth about the Andijan shootings and hastened to what he called the “big, weighty points”. Since the...

Yesterday it was learned that U.S. Air Force planes stationed in Uzbekistan were moved from the Karshi-Khanabal military base to bases in neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. The move was made after the Uzbek authorities prohibited the Americans from making night flights. This is Tashkent's way of responding to intensifying pressure from the West for an independent investigation of the events in Andijan. On Tuesday evening, the foreign ministers of the 25 EU member countries, who were gathered in Brussels for an EU summit, commissioned the EU Council of Ministers to follow the situation in Uzbekistan and, if necessary, recommend measures...

(Moscow, June 7, 2005)—The killing of unarmed protesters by the Uzbek government in Andijan last month was so extensive and unjustified that it amounted to a massacre, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing the most comprehensive investigation to date of the tragic events in eastern Uzbekistan. " The Uzbek authorities are trying to whitewash this massacre. " Kenneth Roth Executive Director of Human Rights Watch Print Printer Friendly Version Also Available in german russian uzbek Related Material Uzbekistan Country Page Uzbekistan: Andijan Crisis Aftermath Campaign Document, June 3, 2005 “Bullets Were Falling Like Rain”: The Andijan Massacre May 13,...

Government troops reclaimed control of an eastern Uzbek town where rebels announced they would build a strict Islamic state, and local residents said Thursday that authorities had arrested the group's leaders. Some said that about 200 government forces had occupied Korasuv, a town of 20,000 on the border with Kyrgyzstan, overnight and arrested the rebel leader Bakhtiyor Rakhimov and several aides who had announced a plan to rule according to Islamic law. Other residents said the government troops numbered 1,000. Some local residents said they heard no shots, but others reported sporadic shooting. All refused to give their names,...

The leader of a group of rebels claiming to control this Uzbek border town said Wednesday that he and his supporters intend to build an Islamic state and are ready to fight if government troops attempt to crush their revolt. "We will be building an Islamic state here in accordance with the Quran," Bakhtiyor Rakhimov told The Associated Press while leaning down from the back of a horse. Tense but confident, the bearded 42-year-old farmer, wearing a traditional Uzbek embroidered black-and-white skull cup, snapped his fingers as he gave orders to an assistant. It was unclear how many people...

Dramatic events are unfolding in Uzbekistan, where crowds of people have gathered outside government buildings in the eastern town of Andijan. Troops are said to be filling a nearby street and stadium, and some shots have been fired injuring protesters. Reports say three snipers firing on the crowd were pulled down from a roof by the angry crowd. During the night, gunmen stormed the city jail releasing possibly thousands of prisoners. The crowds are thought to be protesting against the trial of 23 Islamic businessmen on extremism charges. "The people have risen," AP news agency quoted Valijon Atakhonjonov, the...