The Afghanistan
conference in Bonn is a farce.
There are no representatives of the
Afghan resistance to the occupation, so it is not negotiating peace.
Karzai’s corrupt and effete presidency, obtained by massive electoral
fraud, expires in 2014. It is no coincidence that immediately after that
the NATO troops will leave.
Karimov: America's new best friend in Central Asia
Be guaranteed that none of the Karzai
family will remain in Afghanistan, but will rather retire to Switzerland
with the many billions of dollars they have looted from UK and US
taxpayers’ funds, and made from the heroin trade.
Pakistan
of course is not present at the conference. After approximately 6,000
Pakistanis were blown up by the USA on Pakistani soil, the next 25 were
killed all at once and were all young soldiers, something that not even
Pakistan’s complacent, corrupt government could gloss over.
So for now
all of NATO’s ground supplies are being shipped through Uzbekistan – the
percentage of NATO supplies going that way was already increased to
almost 50% and still rising fast as a matter of policy.
Lucky that Hillary has a new best friend in President Karimov
All of
which explains why there has been not one single word of criticism of
Uzbekistan’s human rights record by the co-alition government in the UK.
There was not one single mention of human rights, of child slave
labour, of political prisoners, of free elections, unbanning the
opposition, of freedom of assembly, speech or religious belief, when the
British government hosted official Uzbek parliamentary and trade
delegations last month. There was not one word either in public or in
private on any of these subjects.
The current British government loves Karimov. It has never issued even the mildest criticism. Boiling people alive and torturing political opponents to death is fine by them. We even deport him back extra dissidents to practice on. This British government succesfully pushed through the EU new preferential tariff access for Uzbek cotton picked by eight year old child slaves.
The love affair with the British establishment
goes wider than just this government. New Labour’s chief financier,
their own Lord Ashcroft, is a man named Andrew Rosenfeld. He has
sold a house in Switzerland
to Karimov’s daughter Lola for three times its market value. Such huge
payments in excess of market value are, very often, a spot of money
laundering with the extra money being in return for something else.
Money flows both way – as previously reported here, Karimov’s elder daughter Gulnara is getting a massive cut from the transport of all those NATO supplies through Uzbekistan.
But the latest bit of love-in with the Karimov family will astound you. William Hague is going to agree that Gulnara Karimova - the most hated person in Uzbekistan -
can come and live in London as Uzbek Ambassador. The request for her to
be accepted (“agrement” in diplomatic parlance, in French) – has been
in for some time. The only obstacle remaining is to resolve how many of
Gulnara’s seven bodyguards will be allowed to carry semi-automatic
weapons on the streets of London.
Among our major political parties, the notion of morality appears virtually as dead as it is to the Karimov family.
Craig
Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was
British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and
Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. - www.craigmurray.org.
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