Our kind of dictators
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1234323,00.html
Paul Foot
Wednesday June 9, 2004
The Guardian
Tony Blair's latest musing about Iraq shows how far he has come since
the glory days of weapons of mass destruction. He now has only one
justification for the invasion of Iraq. It "rid the world" of the
dictator Saddam Hussein.
This justification has serious consequences for British foreign
policy. For if it is Britain's aim to rid the world of dictators,
where do we go next? Here's a suggestion. Twenty-six million people
live in beleaguered Uzbekistan, almost exactly the same number of
people who live in Iraq. President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan is a
dictator who has perfected many of the techniques of repression
developed by Saddam. There are at least 5,000 people unjustly
imprisoned in Uzbekistan, many of them for their political or
religious views. They are systematically tortured and murdered. There
is in Uzbekistan nothing remotely resembling a free press or free
speech.
Paul Foot
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