Why the world should pay attention to unrest in Karakalpakstan
Al JazeeraThe Uzbek government’s violent clampdown on protests in Karakalpakstan can have significant consequences for Central Asia – and the power balance between Russia, China and the West. Last week, rare protests in Uzbekistan’s autonomous Karakalpakstan region, which borders Kazakhstan in the country’s northwest, turned deadly. Mirziyoyev started working towards changing Uzbekistan’s economic and political trajectory immediately after taking over the presidency from Islam Karimov – the first president of independent Uzbekistan who led the country with an iron fist from 1989 until his death in 2016. Despite the new president’s claims of seeking structural reforms, at the time Uzbekistan had a second power centre in Rustam Inoyatov, head of the feared State Security Service and expectations for major change were low.
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