Boiled alive
Our man in Tashkent in trouble
BELIEVE one side of the story, and Britain's ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, is something of a martyr, brought home ignominiously for his blunt and brave criticism of the torture, murder and beastliness that are commonplace under President Islam Karimov's regime. Adding insult to injury, it was all disguised with trumped-up charges of drinking, womanising and other high jinks. The real reason, supposedly, was complaints by America, which counts Uzbekistan as its most dependable ally in the region.
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