Islom Karimov

Islom Abdug `aniyevich Karimov (in Uzbek; in Russian: ИсламАбдуганиевичКаримов, transliterated in Islam Abdouganievitch Karimov , the form most often employed), born the January 30th 1938 with Samarkand is the president of the republic of Ouzbékistan in station since the March 24th 1990.

Biography

After having been high in an orphanage of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ouzbékistan, Islom Karimov makes its higher learning with Tachkent and becomes engineer out of machine tools and economist. It adheres in 1964 to the Communist party of the Soviet Union.

A traditional rise in the apparatus of the party follows: Karimov starts as of 1966 by taking part in the development of the five-year plan of RSSOu, then he becomes Minister for Finance of 1983 with 1986, Deputy Prime Minister and finally first secretary of the Communist party of Ouzbékistan in 1989. The March 24th 1990, he becomes President of the RSS of Ouzbékistan and, after the collapse of the the USSR and the independence of the country, declared the August 31st 1991, will assume the role of President d' Ouzbékistan while waiting for the presidential election of the December 29th.

Islom Karimov gains the first presidential election with 86 % of the votes. In 1995, it organizes a referendum which extends its mandate until in 2000 and obtains approximately 100 % of the voices. Then Karimov is made re-elect the January 9th 2000 with 91,6 % of the voices vis-a-vis only the other candidate Abdoulaziz Djalalov. Djalalov does not even hide that he is only one candidate being used to give to the mode a minimum of democratic frontage and that, moreover, he personally voted for Karimov. The January 27th 2002, Karimov still makes prolong its mandate by referendum.

Karimov is married with the economist Tatiana Akbarovna Karimova. They have two girls and three grandchildren. Karimov carried out the pilgrimage of Mecque ( hajj ) in 1992.

The ONG present in the area as well as UNO denounce the Torture S, the lack of Démocratie, repression against the political opposition and nun, the lack of Freedom of the press in Ouzbékistan under the cut of Karimov. The chief of the party Erk, Muhammad Solih, was obliged to choose the exile whereas his/her colleague Atanazar Oripov spends much his time in “provisional” detention. Nevertheless the social structure which exists in Ouzbékistan is very different from the Western companies which leave a greater freedom to the individual. In Ouzbékistan, the capacity is based mainly on the agreement of the mahallas (communities of district) and thus it must satisfy a minimum with the requirements of the population. There remains however indubitable that apart from the tender with the mahallas and the representatives of official Islam, repression is wild.

Wanting to create an positive image in occident to obtain there investments in industries of the country in lack of structural reforms, Karimov tries to show some signs of evolution of the mode. Thus at the time of the arrival with Tachkent, in February 2004, of Donald Rumsfeld, secretary with the Defense of the United States, and the international mediums which follow it, Karimov made release a woman condemned to six years of prison to have denounced tortures which caused the death of his/her son. These small gestures are enough amply so that BERD and the the IMF help the Uzbek Dictature.

Since the end 2003, President Karimov only appears very seldom as a public and the rumor the known as patient of a cancer.

The waves of attacks in March and July 2004 show that the muscular repression of Karimov did not know to dam up the revival of the Islamisme armed in the valley with the Ferghana and that its alliance with the United States perhaps will cause its loss. In addition it is difficult to include/understand why Karimov persists in allotting these attacks to the peaceful islamist movement Hizb C-Tahrir, whereas all lets accept actions Islamic Mouvement of Ouzbékistan of Tohir Yo `ldosh and Djuma Namangani.

Not wanting to be destabilized by the the United States, Karimov opens its territory and its air bases with the soldiers states-uniens who fight in Afghanistan starting from the end 2001. Ouzbékistan becomes for a few years a strategic ally of the United States, and this until summer 2005 when it makes an abrupt turn towards Moscow and expels the American soldiers of its ground.

The May 13rd 2005, it represses an insurrection with Andijan, in the valley of Ferghana, while making shoot at the insurrectionists with the heavy machine gun, 169 died according to the official sources ouzbèkes, 769 died according to the opposition, of ONG presents on the spot, estimates that there would be of it more than one thousand.

November 18th, 2007, Karimov aspires to the new presidential mandate, in spite of the provisions of the Constitution.

Internal bonds

Political of Ouzbékistan
History of Ouzbékistan
Presidents d' Ouzbékistan
List of the current leaders

External bonds

: Biography on the site of Human Rights Watch
: Official site of the Embassy of Ouzbékistan in France
: Official site of the press service of the Uzbek president
: Official site of the Uzbek government
: various bonds on the events of May 2005 in Ouzbékistan
: Site of information on the area
: comparison Saddam Hussein/Islom Karimov

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