Field Reports
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA FOUNDED BY AGA KHAN FOUNDATION
By Konstantin Parshin, Dushanbe, Tajikistan (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The University of Central Asia, the world’s first university dedicated exclusively to education and research on mountain regions and societies, has been launched by the Aga Khan Foundation and will be built in Khorog city. Khorog is the administrative centre of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast of Tajikistan. On 31 August, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, the Aga Khan, and the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed a treaty to establish the university.
UZBEKISTAN’S MILLENNIAL COTTON HARVEST
By Jennifer Balfour, educator in Central Asia (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
"Hamma Paktaga!" The road block said it all. Get out there everyone. There’s cotton to be picked! The first cotton harvest of the new millennium continues as relentless as ever.
PRE-ELECTION MIRACLES IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Anonymous, Bishkek (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Expensive fireworks filled the air on the night after elections to celebrate the victory of Askar Akaev in Ala-Too Square. The man whom 74% of Kyrgyzstan’s population support and admire. The battle was won! Most of the Kyrgyz newspapers announced that fact with the headline, "Kyrgyzstan made its right choice for the continuation of democratic reforms.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BISHKEK CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
By Kadyr Toktogulov, Coordinator of Amnesty International Bishkek—Kyrgyzstan, sophomore at America (11/22/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Bishkek group of Amnesty International (AI) began its work on human rights in Bishkek one year ago to join the efforts with Amnesty International to strengthen its human rights mission worldwide. After only eight months of work, the Bishkek group received official recognition from the International Secretariat of Amnesty International and become a full Amnesty group. Amnesty International - Bishkek is based at American University in Kyrgyzstan where the most active and open-minded students in Kyrgyzstan study.
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