SOAS Academic Shirin Akiner is Uzbekistan Regime Agent
The Plains | 18.01.2007 10:31 | Sheffield
Shocking revelations about a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Lecturer in Central Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Dr Shirin Akiner has been condemned by human rights groups, liberty campaigners and Craig Murray (ex-UK Ambassador in Tashkent) as an apologist for brutal Uzbek dictator President Karimov. This short report on the Andijan massacre concludes with an interview with Dr Akiner in which she attempts to downplay and justify the horrific murderers by Karimov's regime.
Please watch the following Channel 4 News report and interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgUnTjNQ-44
Readers may also wish to complain to her boss:
Professor Paul Webley, Director and Principal of SOAS
Email Address:
pw2@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: 0207 898 4014
Fax: 0207 898 4019
Please watch the following Channel 4 News report and interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgUnTjNQ-44 Readers may also wish to complain to her boss:
Professor Paul Webley, Director and Principal of SOAS
Email Address:
pw2@soas.ac.uk Telephone: 0207 898 4014
Fax: 0207 898 4019
The Plains
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Akiner lies about implications of Turkmenistan dictator's death
18.01.2007 11:41
Those well versed in Turkmenistan’s may find it difficult to reconcile such claims with concrete indicators such as record of secure external borders, the country’s cautious historical interaction with Afghanistan and the way religious tendencies of the Afghans are perceived among Turkmen citizens.
Uzbekistan's ex-Oil Minister Anwar Husainov states that a threat from any Islamist extremists is little likely since Islamists have a very weak standing. Turkmens are not staunch believers and as people from the steppe they are incline to their own social values.
Another close observer of the region from neighbouring Kazakhstan Nurlan Erembetov reminds that the Turkmen society have been had all modes of free expressions pulled off from their roots.
Jim