Uzbek police may have killed 1,000 says campaigner
19/05/2005 - 15:53:41Uzbek police and security forces may have killed up to 1,000 unarmed civilians in recent unrest, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan said today.
Talib Yakubov, the chairman of the Uzbek organisation, said he expected another uprising and warned and it could be bloody.
He called on the West to act more firmly against the Uzbek regime, warning that failure to do so would make it partly responsible for any future street violence.
