| PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE PRESENTS REPORT ON ANDIJAN TO PARLIAMENT COMMISSION
UzReport.com [01:53] 07.09.2005
On 5-6 September 2005, investigative group of the General Prosecutor’s Office presented a report on the results of investigation on Andijan events to the independent commission of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan. Investigation of the tragic events of 12-13 May in Andijan in relation to 15 most active participants has been concluded and the materials of the criminal case have been submitted to the Supreme Court. More than 2,100 expert examinations were held during the investigation. The investigation has concluded that the acts in Andijan were a carefully planned action, organized by outside destructive forces and aimed against Uzbekistan’s independent policy and national interests, changing present constitutional order and creation of an Islamic state meeting their geopolitical demands. The investigation has shown that starting from August 2004, the above-named destructive forces, with attraction of international terrorist and religious extremist organizations like Islamic Movement of Turkestan, Hizb-ut-Tahrir and one of its branches Akramiylar, planned organizing terrorist actions in Uzbekistan in May 2005 with the purpose of seizing power and overthrowing the constitutional order. The scenario and the detailed plan of terrorist acts were carefully planned, including forming armed groups, their military training, provision with arms and ammunition, determining and reconnaissance of objects of attack, including military units and law-enforcement subdivisions, their arms and ammunition depots, etc. The investigation has proven that the “screenwriters” chose the territory of southern provinces of Kyrgyzstan as a foothold for preparation to terrorist acts. There, from January to April 2005 foreign instructors taught diversion and terrorist skills to some 70 religious extremists. In order to ensure swift seizure of power in Andijan, up to 20 attack groups consisting of 9 to 22 people each were formed. The heads of these groups carefully studied the plans of the objects of attacks, and prepared the necessary arms, ammunition and explosives beforehand. In the night of 12 May, more than 60 trained and armed militants (Kyrgyz citizens) intruded the territory of Uzbekistan and took an active part in the terrorist acts. Simultaneously with the terrorist aggression, information war against Uzbekistan was being prepared. False “peaceful” demonstrations of citizens were planned in parallel with terrorist acts. For this, organizers of the acts wanted to draw as many people as possible in the streets, to create conditions and opportunities for criminal elements, mainly freed dangerous criminals, to riot in the streets of Andijan, carrying out pogroms, arsons, destructions and robbing. To put it shortly, they planned creating an unrestrained Bacchanalia on the principle of “the more fire and smoke, the more visibility of mass unrest, demonstrations of the rebelling people”. The “screenwriters” of the above-named actions planned to create the visibility of a city seized by the rebelling “angry population”, against which the government troops allegedly carry out military actions, so that the omnipresent so-called “humanitarian” “charity” international organizations demanded according their plan to stop, as they say, the “massacre of the peaceful population”. The main role to cover these events was assigned to mass media controlled by them. With this purpose, representatives of a number of foreign human rights organizations, media and foreign charity societies, which were informed beforehand, started gathering in the territories adjacent to Andijan – Osh, Aravan, Karasu and Jalalabad – before the events, starting from 9-10 May. Being present in this region, they were waiting for the start of the action, in order to capture the explosion in Andijan and spread the slander about the actions of the organs of authority and law-enforcement. At the same time, the fact that terrorists counted on the limpness and negligence of separate employees of the police and servicemen, which allowed violation of the statutes, proved correct in a certain sense. Unfortunately, as a result of this, terrorists managed to seize a large amount of firing arms and ammunition. For negligent attitude to execute their official duties to protect the entrusted objects and failure to show proper resistance to bandits’ attacks, criminal cases were launched against 25 officials of the interior organs and the military. As a result of the terrorist acts, a total of 187 people died, of them 60 were civilians, including two minors and 1 woman. The terrorists killed 31 employees of the law-enforcement organs and the military. 287 people received various bodily injuries, including 91 civilian, 49 law-enforcement officers and 59 military servicemen. 94 terrorists were liquidated during the anti-terrorist actions, and 76 were wounded. The terrorists kidnapped a total of 70 people during the terrorist acts, of which 15 were cruelly killed. Of the stolen 334 units of firing arms, 255 were returned, including 180 automatic guns, 59 pistols, 11 rifles, 4 machineguns and 1 grenade dispenser. Besides, 16 units of firing arms brought by terrorists from Kyrgyzstan were found and seized, including 7 Kalashnikov guns and 2 sniper rifles with erased numbers, as well as a US-made half-automatic rifle AR-15. Of the 527 illegally freed people, 496 were returned, 6 terrorist acts participants were liquidated, while the remaining 25 are being searched for. At present, the investigation is at the stage of completion in relation to 106 persons accused of direct participation in terrorist acts. Press service of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan

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