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Pix of Uzbek Embassy Demonstration, Sat 21 May 05

Tim D Jones | 23.05.2005 14:16 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World

A powerful peaceful protest against the state-perpetrated massacres in Uzbekistan.

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...and the cops make sure the Uzbek Embassy can't even see our protest!
...and the cops make sure the Uzbek Embassy can't even see our protest!

Diplomatic Protection Group pig transporter flanked by protesters
Diplomatic Protection Group pig transporter flanked by protesters

Tog dog rozzer 'explains' the Met's contempt for political protest
Tog dog rozzer 'explains' the Met's contempt for political protest

Moist but militant
Moist but militant

Fellow mass murdering Presidents Shrub & Karimov greet each other warmly
Fellow mass murdering Presidents Shrub & Karimov greet each other warmly

Britain's ex-ambassador blows whistle on UK's venal link 2 Uzbek state torturers
Britain's ex-ambassador blows whistle on UK's venal link 2 Uzbek state torturers

Islam Karimov stands accused, while his victims are commemorated
Islam Karimov stands accused, while his victims are commemorated

Never let bad weather get in the way of pressing political protest
Never let bad weather get in the way of pressing political protest

Counting the cost of capitalism's decomposition into barbarism
Counting the cost of capitalism's decomposition into barbarism


An old superstition holds that a Friday the 13th is an unnaturally unlucky day. The friends and relatives grieving the massacre of over 745 Uzbeks by government troops on Fri 13 May 05 could be forgiven for feeling unnaturally superstitious. While the Uzbekistan state butchers-in-chief, Prosecutor-general Rashid Kadyrov and President Islam Karimov, claimed “Only terrorists were liquidated by government forces,” Nigara Khidoyatova, head of the unregistered opposition Free Peasants Party, said her party reached its figure of 745 killed in the Andijan and Pakhtabad massacres by speaking to relatives of the missing. “The count hasn’t yet finished, and the death toll will rise,” she told The Associated Press, five days after the slaughter.

Decadent capitalism in decomposition produces few incidents more horrific than professional armies gunning down peaceful protesters. And such unmitigated brutality provokes storms of indignation and anger around the globe. In London, the call went out to demonstrate against the murderous Karimov regime in Tashkent and the complicity of his imperialist supporters in Washington and Westminster: see 'Demonstrate against the Uzbek massacres'  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/311461.html

The Westminster warmongers, through the Metropolitan Porker's SO16 Diplomatic Protection Group, made sure the demonstrators were penned into a crash barrier corral, a good 200m away from the Uzbek Embassy at 41 Holland Park Road. Despite bursts of torrential heavy rain, around 30 people ensured that our collective disgust and anger at the Andijan and Pakhtabad massacres was expressed, and that the guilty politicians were prominently identified, and will be remembered in the annuls of infamy.

In International Solidarity,

Tim D Jones

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  1. Pictures, What Pictures? — tim_d_jones@yahoo.co.uk
  2. Nice One — Buzz
  3. Thank you to protestors and Tim — Nicholas Allott
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  6. Thank you — Lola
  7. Funny — corporate_image_killer
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