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Friday 20th May 2005, 1600 BST/1100 EST.
On May 13-14, 2005, Uzbek security forces bloodily suppressed a popular uprising in the city of Andizhan, in the Ferghana Valley region, with hundreds of casualties reported. This was the most serious challenge to the authoritarian regime of President Islam Karimov since independence in 1991. Protests also erupted in the nearby border town of Korasuv, and hundreds of people fled across the border into Krygyzstan. An international outcry has met the Uzbek government’s handling of the protests.
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