Uzbekistan Update V

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Nathan’s Registan continues to be one of the most reliable sources of news and analysis, to the extent that he is now being blocked from inside Uzebekistan itself. Among links you kind find there is one to the appropriately named Radio Silence. You can also access an on the ground report of the refugee situation in Kyrgyzstan.

The Independent (I need to be careful here) has a story on the background to the events in Andijon. Nathan gives it some credence:

If their account is accurate?and it certainly may well be?it should give pause to those who cast what took place as helpless democracy protesters versus a cruel and violent government. There appears to have been brutality on both sides, though he government?s response was undeniably disproportionate. Also, this reconstruction of events is true, I can?t help but agree with the lack of enthusiasm to take sides on the part of the US. Neither Karimov?s government nor those who seized the prison and reportedly executed all the guards (and more that can be found in excerpts below) are the kinds of people we should be too excited about.

Basically if you’re interested read Nathan’s entire post.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is wobbling towards taking a stronger line.

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Edward 'the bonobo is a Catalan economist of British extraction. After being born, brought-up and educated in the United Kingdom, Edward subsequently settled in Barcelona where he has now lived for over 15 years. As a consequence Edward considers himself to be "Catalan by adoption". He has also to some extent been "adopted by Catalonia", since throughout the current economic crisis he has been a constant voice on TV, radio and in the press arguing in favor of the need for some kind of internal devaluation if Spain wants to stay inside the Euro. By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".