Un blâme sévère pour l'administration Obama.
"The Obama administration has allowed gross violations of human rights in Uzbekistan to go unchecked in order to avoid losing a crucial supply route for Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch alleges in a Tuesday report.
"The West's increasingly soft approach on rights in Uzbekistan became even more pronounced in 2011 when it contrasted starkly with the stance of the Obama administration and EU officials during the Arab Spring," HRW said in its new report, entitled "No One Left to Witness."
Steve Swerdlow, a researcher with Human Rights Watch covering Uzbekistan, said his organization was kicked out of Uzbekistan late last year, the first time in the organization's three decades that an entire field office was expelled from a country. The move drew minimal reproach from the administration, he added.
"There was a very soft statement from the State Department a few months later 'expressing concern,' but no condemnation of the move," he said. Swerdlow himself was expelled from the country on Christmas eve of last year.
Instead, Swerdlow said, the administration has focused its energy on winning over Uzbek president Islam Karimov's cooperation with the crucial Northern Distribution Network (NDN), a supply line for NATO troops in Afghanistan that runs through Uzbekistan."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/human-rights-watch-uzbekistan_n_1144652.html?ref=politics&ir=Politics
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