It’s been 20 years since Uzbekistan’s security forces opened fire on a largely peaceful crowd of protesters and curious onlookers, including women and children, on May 13, 2005 in Andijan ...

Hundreds of Andijan residents search for missing relatives - on Babur Square itself and later at the collection points. President Karimov blamed the violence on Islamic extremists The school is said ...

They described Andijan as a place where their relatives live in constant fear. A woman who fled Andijan recently said her mother was too afraid to allow her daughter to stay in her house.

Ten years after the uprising, Andijan looks busy and peaceful. Locally produced cars and mini-buses zigzag the badly paved roads, men in traditional Uzbek skullcaps and women in headscarves and ...

On May 13, word spread that President Islam Karimov himself was going to come to Andijan and appear before the crowd. Women naively came with their small children in tow, thinking that at last they ...

Gulbadan Begum, Babur’s daughter, is considered the only woman historian in the Muslim ... So, in memory of him, on the central square of Andijan, a monument was erected to the graceful Babur ...

The President also met with representatives of various nationalities residing in Andijan, emphasizing that peace and interethnic harmony are the nation’s greatest treasure. A festive concert was held ...