Tuesday, 31 May 2005

EVIDENCE OF MASS GRAVE DISCOVERED IN UZBEKISTAN

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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.
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. So, there must be [74] bodies altogether.\" RFE/RL later learned that the guide who led the correspondent to the site, a man in his late 50s named Juraboy, was stabbed to death by two unknown assailants. No further details were available. Andijon residents said that the mass grave in Bogishamol is only one of several such sites that appeared after 13 May. (RFE/RL)
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