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Annan: Uzbek President Rejects Probe
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus May 20, 2005 02:13pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Friday, May 20, 2005 08:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan - Uzbek President Islam Karimov rejected a U.N. request for an international probe into last week's government crackdown on demonstrators that reportedly killed hundreds, saying he had the situation under control, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.
But Karimov denied Annan's account Friday, saying the topic of a probe never came up during their phone conversation. Also, hundreds of people protested in the eastern town that government troops regained from Islamic rebels, but security forces did not intervene.
A top U.N. rights investigator requested that Uzbekistan let him assess the situation but said Friday he had received no response. Philip Alston, U.N. special investigator on illegal and arbitrary executions, said he was "gravely concerned about reports that hundreds of people, including women and children, were killed on May 13 when government troops fired indiscriminately to disperse a demonstration in Andijan."
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