Sun, May 15, 2005 - Page 5 News List

In Uzbekistan, guns, blood and tears

`HAIL OF BULLETS' Despite a media blackout, a grim picture slowly emerged of the uprising in Andizhan and of the subsequent crackdown on a crowd of protesters

AP , ANDIZHAN, UZBEKISTAN

When darkness fell, the sounds of gunfire ceased and I was sitting in a small computer game shop writing my story. A man came in, covered in blood and mud, with a wound in his back, and he was smoking nervously. He said he had lain motionless between two dead bodies for a long time because he feared being killed.

Ikrom-Aka, an 80-year-old with a long, white beard, was propped up in his bed in a house not far away.

"Who will answer for all this?" he asked.

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