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Towns in Terror.(Uzbekistan)(Brief Article)
When the Uzbek government announced the arrival of U.S. soldiers at the airbase in Khanabad last month, most locals were eager to meet their new neighbors. Today many wish the Americans would go home.
Not that the Americans themselves are the problem. They are ensconced in their own "city" behind concrete walls, and almost no one has even seen them. The problem is the virtual reign of terror that the Uzbek security services have unleashed on the inhabitants of Khanabad and neighboring villages: whole villages sealed off by police, visits by outsiders forbidden, regular house-to-house searches and police at checkpoints taking taxi license-plate numbers, interrogating those drivers unlucky enough to have transported a foreign journalist and confiscating their cars.
Intense secrecy, repression and the complete information blackout by ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Towns in Terror.(Uzbekistan)(Brief Article)