Comments on: Roghun Rage

By: Amira

Amira — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:14:13 +0000

Growing up in Tashkent as kid. i loved it. That was a perfect place actually. Karim is a good president he does ridht by his country. Uzbekistan should not give nothing to Tajiks they don’t deeserve it. They are greedy, selfish, liars, and backstabbers. I know from life experince. I hope everything goes well for uzbek people. One day i will love to go back and visit. Because of Tajik people I lost my mom and left my family in uzbekistan while i got adopted and got separated from Lebedev Vitalik Ivanov who is my step brother and has hard time in life with his disability surveving after my moms lost her life. As life goes you learn how to do just whats right by others. I saw that during my life time allot growing up over there. Living in USA now makes me miss the Manners that I grew up there by. I’m not saying it’s bad here “No” It has good apportu nties for life. I hope Karim builds economy for our people and keep all the bull shit out of there. We deserve happiness. At the same time we cant forget where we come from and what we here to do. I try to do right by others and by life.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:12:14 +0000

I believe water is a natural resource. Last year, Tajikistan went to great lengths to jumpstart discussion on the creation of a water consortium to deal with water issues. The CA countries are literally fighting over water.

I don’t think the countries will cooperate on a large scale. I think they will release press reports to save face and to hide obvious and overt hostilities towards one another. Uzbekistan wants the water which leads to control: “Whoever controls the water, controls Central Asia.” I don’t think Tajikistan would give it up. Both are to blame.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:47:33 +0000

The truth is obviously somewhat clouded and somewhat irrelevant. Both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are running out of the sorts of resources they want

Huh? What resources are being depleted? Why? And who is at fault? These are meaningful questions that can, and have been, answered… Overuse of water that is not regarded as a natural resource (according to intl law), though plentiful in Tajikistan, and food and fuel from the Uzbek side (as well as shutting down of border transit points)…

And if matters are zero-sum, or viewed as such in those two countries, how can they be expected to cooperate more fully?

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:11:50 +0000

Regarding the cow: the same thing happened in Kyrgyzstan in early January: “The incident is second this year. On January 2, two Kyrgyz border guards were detained by Uzbek police in the Ala-Buka area of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border after allegedly trying to steal a cow from an Uzbek village. They were released on January 6.” –RFE/RL.

I think the cow represents a power struggle between the two countries: Uzbekistan wants what all of the other republics have. It is a game of dominance for Uzbekistan, and if they can’t have it, no one can. Uzbekistan has attempted to paint Tajikistan as the “bad guy” by accusing them of being greedy with water resources by constructing the Rogun Dam.