KILLING OF CIVILIANS IN ANDIJAN (No. 2)

Early day motion 192, tabled 24 May 2005 by Harry Cohen (Labour). Signed by 18 members.

That this House notes that, in regard to the recent killing of civilians in Andijan, Uzbekistan, the United States, which pays over $50 million to the Uzbeks for operating a major military base in the country, has gone along with the Muslim terrorists' falsehood of the Karimov regime and failed properly to criticise this gross human rights abuse, exposing a double standard in calling for democracy and human rights around the world whilst soft-pedalling where it considers it has a strategic interest; recalls, however, that a US State Department human rights report explicitly asserted that the Uzbeks do not have the opportunity peacefully to change their regime; and further recalls that organisations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have been scathing about the Karimov regime's human rights record.

Signatures by party: Labour 15, Liberal Democrat 2, Plaid Cymru 1.