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Uzbekistan Rejects UN Request

HeadlineMay 20, 2005

The United Nations says that Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov has rejected requests for an international inquiry into the bloody crackdown in the town of Andijan last week. Human rights groups say as many as 1,000 people may have been killed, while the government claims just over 150 died. We’ll have more on this later in the program.

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