When Islam Karimov became the president of Uzbekistan in 1990, his country was officially called the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and was part of the USSR. In 1991 he declared Uzbekistan an independent state and maintained his presidency in an election that, according to every international group that monitors elections, was fixed. That has been [...]
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When the story about torture in Abu Ghraib broke, most of the world was appalled. Members of the American military were not only torturing Iraq prisoners, but they were photographing each other committing the torture. It is the United States that now puts the Geneva Conventions and other aspects of international law at risk by ignoring them. America’s largest penal colony is a New York jail. “Norilsk…is a city where the bus driver tells you, ‘If a Norlisk man gets sick in Moscow, the way to cure him is to move him closer to the car’s exhaust.’” |
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