News Digest
U.S. SENATORS PRESS INVESTIGATION DEMAND DESPITE COLD SHOULDER DURING UZBEK VISIT
By empty (5/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A group of three U.S. senators told a news conference in Tashkent on 29 May that Uzbekistan must allow an independent investigation of allegations that government troops fired on unarmed demonstrators in Andijon on 13 May, agencies reported.EVIDENCE OF MASS GRAVE DISCOVERED IN UZBEKISTAN
By empty (5/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
RFE/RL visited what appeared to be a mass grave in Andijon containing 37 gravesites on 27 May. Isroiljon Kholdorov, the regional leader of the banned Erk opposition party, told RFE/RL that local gravediggers said bodies were brought in trucks to the site, located in a district of Andijon called Bogishamol, after violence on 13 May. He said, \"[The gravediggers] say there are 37 graves with two corpses in each.COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION NOT TO DEPLOY BASE IN KYRGYZSTAN\'S SOUTH
By empty (5/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) does not intend to deploy a military base in southern Kyrgyzstan, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said on Monday. \"This is not necessary,\" Bordyuzha told journalists after the talks with acting Kyrgyz Defense Minister Ismail Isakov. The Kyrgyz side did not raise this issue during the talks, Bordyuzha added.LEADING AFGHAN CLERIC SHOT DEAD
By empty (5/29/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Gunmen have killed a leading cleric and opponent of the Taleban in southern Afghanistan, police said. Mawlavi Abdullah Fayaz was attacked by gunmen on a motorcycle as he left his office in the city of Kandahar. Last week Mr Fayaz, a key supporter of President Hamid Karzai, had given a strong speech denouncing Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.