Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Uzbek unrest coverage in the blogosphere

Well, "Today's Blogs" at Slate has beat me to the punch on doing a run-down of blog comment/coverage of the events in Uzbekistan.

3 comments:

Елизавета said...

Full Feed!! I feel so loved!!
But really, this is great. Thanks.

Also, I am thankful that you (and other bloggers) can cover this tragic event. It has hardly been mentioned on the American mainstream media, so it is unlikely that I would know much about it without the your coverage.

Anonymous said...

The Guardian has a link to 'Scrapsof...' in its main article and an opinion piece from Craig Murray.

My favourite from the BBC today is 'Press split over Uzbek unrest'. But not in Uzbekistan itself: 'Newspapers have been published in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, for the first time since the unrest in the east of the country on Friday. [...] all the main dailies have exactly the same headline: "Islam Karimov: Nobody can stop us on the path we have chosen". '

From the radio: the journalists and diplomats (allowed into Andijan) were given 'a tightly controlled tour that illustrated the government's version of events'.

Anonymous said...

The embassy in London has been daubed with red paint in an attack by Hezb-e Tahrir supporters (Channel 4 News and The Guardian).