Uzbekistan’s government really doesn’t want the world to know what happened in Andijon. Not only has a human rights activist who assisted journalists and called foreign embassies with information about the attack been jailed and not heard from, but police are reportedly going door-to-door to warn Andijon residents not to talk about the massacre.
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