http://registan.net/index.php/2005/03/29/uzbek-human-rights-groups-protest-freedom-house/ All Central Asia, All The Time Thu, 24 May 2012 20:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://registan.net/index.php/2005/03/29/uzbek-human-rights-groups-protest-freedom-house/comment-page-1/#comment-11088 Insider Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:33:45 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=4911#comment-11088 I have never met with Ms. Sever, and never listened to her speak, however, from my observations and my analysis of what has been happening in the past year, I must say, that she made a BIG mistake. She should have never cooperated with the Uzbek government. If the motto of the Freedom House, is to promote democracy and freedom and human rights around the world, they should stick to it. Ms. Sever's ass-kissing of President Karimov, not only destroyed her reputation, not only among Uzbeks, but I must say others as well, but it also seriously damaged the reputation of Freedom House. She had a long but a firm way of ruining the organization's reputations. First, by alienating the non-registered opposition parties, second, working with Agrarian Party and its leader Marat Zahidov, who is a well-known provocateur and who also works with the Uzbek government. Third, it was denying that the two torture cases, where prisoners were tortured, were actually tortured, when evidence and expertise clearly showed that the prisoners died from torture (how would two healthy, young males would die in prison?), and finally, her visit to Oksaray to meet President Karimov was finally the last drop. She has asked for it, and lets make a distinction here , this time its actually the PEOPLE who think that she is the enemy, NOT the GOVERNMENT, as it was back in the Soviet days. I have never met with Ms. Sever, and never listened to her speak, however, from my observations and my analysis of what has been happening in the past year, I must say, that she made a BIG mistake.
She should have never cooperated with the Uzbek government. If the motto of the Freedom House, is to promote democracy and freedom and human rights around the world, they should stick to it. Ms. Sever’s ass-kissing of President Karimov, not only destroyed her reputation, not only among Uzbeks, but I must say others as well, but it also seriously damaged the reputation of Freedom House. She had a long but a firm way of ruining the organization’s reputations. First, by alienating the non-registered opposition parties, second, working with Agrarian Party and its leader Marat Zahidov, who is a well-known provocateur and who also works with the Uzbek government. Third, it was denying that the two torture cases, where prisoners were tortured, were actually tortured, when evidence and expertise clearly showed that the prisoners died from torture (how would two healthy, young males would die in prison?), and finally, her visit to Oksaray to meet President Karimov was finally the last drop.
She has asked for it, and lets make a distinction here , this time its actually the PEOPLE who think that she is the enemy, NOT the GOVERNMENT, as it was back in the Soviet days.

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