HRW: Uzbekistan is not a dictatorship - totalitarianism
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date published: 22 January 2014
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summary of article: Human Rights World Report 2014 targeted Uzbekistan's human rights situation. The World Report called it outrageous, claiming there is a complete lack of freedom of speech, assembly and movement, widespread torture, forced labor, and religious persecution. Human Right World Report 2014 denounced Uzbekistan's government for condoning the violation of human rights.
thoughts/emotions/observations: A government's lack of intervention in the violation of human rights, like religious persecution, can be an implication of one ethnicity, typically a relatively large one, trying to suppress minor ethnic groups. Uzbekistan predominantly consists of Uzbeks, who may be trying to suppress other minorities.
article's relation to politics: Inalienable rights and liberties have always been topics of discussion in political issues. There have been and are governments that protect the rights of its been people and cultural uniqueness as well as governments that suppress minor ethnic groups to promote a larger one. Every country has specific events in history that led up to the type of government they have today. Uzbekistan was one of the nation-states that formed from the collapse of the Soviet Union and could be trying its best to preserve its culture.
written by: author's name was not provided
date published: 22 January 2014
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summary of article: Human Rights World Report 2014 targeted Uzbekistan's human rights situation. The World Report called it outrageous, claiming there is a complete lack of freedom of speech, assembly and movement, widespread torture, forced labor, and religious persecution. Human Right World Report 2014 denounced Uzbekistan's government for condoning the violation of human rights.
thoughts/emotions/observations: A government's lack of intervention in the violation of human rights, like religious persecution, can be an implication of one ethnicity, typically a relatively large one, trying to suppress minor ethnic groups. Uzbekistan predominantly consists of Uzbeks, who may be trying to suppress other minorities.
article's relation to politics: Inalienable rights and liberties have always been topics of discussion in political issues. There have been and are governments that protect the rights of its been people and cultural uniqueness as well as governments that suppress minor ethnic groups to promote a larger one. Every country has specific events in history that led up to the type of government they have today. Uzbekistan was one of the nation-states that formed from the collapse of the Soviet Union and could be trying its best to preserve its culture.