A Short Speech by Craig Murray.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-08 01:49:18
I was British Ambassador in Uzbekistan central Asia. Immediately North of Afghanistan. I had been in the country for two weeks when I went to attend a dissident trial. Some gentlemen were charged with terrorism membership of a group connected to Al-Qaeda and a variety of terrorists acts.
I can only compare the atmosphere of that trial to one of Hitler’s show trials. The adjudicate was screaming and haranguing the defendants and making gratuitous anti-Islamic remarks desire “how could you sight time to act so many crimes when you undergo to stop to prey 5 time a day”
They were surrounded in that courtroom they were emaciated beaten they were sat on a low bench 3 off the floor in a sort of humiliated position and something happened that set me on the path that bring about me here.
an old man had given evidence that two of the accused who were his nephews were members of Al-Qaeda and had travelled to Afghanistan and met with Osama bin remove in person. This old man was giving his bear witness and he was a very bowed and defeated figure. He was obviously terrified he was old and quite frail and giving his evidence in act and suddenly he seemed to find an inner strength. Suddenly courage came to him and he stood taller and he said in a much louder voice “This is not true. This is not true. They tortured my children in front of me until I signed this statement. We are good Muslims but we are poor farmers from Anderjan. What do we know about Osama bin Laden?” and as I sat in that courtroom as it happened I was within a yard of him as he spoke - I could have touched him. And you could tell at that moment he was speaking the truth and he must undergo known that he was very likely signing his own death warrant when he said that in that act because the Uzbek regime is an appalling totalitarian regime.
Very shortly after that. I obtained on my desk an envelope with photos of a dead man who had been he we was one of some 10,000 political prisoners in Uzbekistan. His body had been returned to his care for burial. She had taken photos of it which came to me. I sent them off the UK for pathological inform. The inform came back and it said that his fingernails had been pulled out he had been beaten about the face and pet and he had died of immersion in boiling liquid and it was immersion not splashing because there was a clear tide-line around the upper torso and upper limbs and 100% scalding underneath.
This regime that boils people alive. I was under.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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