ASTANA – Uzbek airline Centrum Air began operating a new regular flight on the Nukus-Aktau route on July 3, reported the ...

The trial over deadly unrest this summer in Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan region is not the model of transparency that authorities promised.

The government in Uzbekistan wanted to show it was going to be different this time. But the Nukus commission investigating bloody chaos in July has yet to deliver.

Little known and rarely visited, Karakalpakstan is the largest province in Uzbekistan, but much of it is occupied by barren and inhospitable desert.

Uzbek service members guard a road in Nukus, capital of the northwestern Karakalpakstan region, Uzbekistan, July 6, 2022.

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Amid the crackdown on protests last summer in Nukus, 21 people were killed — most of them civilians.

Protests erupted in Nukus on July 1 and 2 over a move to remove Karakalpakstan’s right, under the constitution, to hold a referendum on self-determination. Hundreds of people were arrested.

Karakalpakstan’s seasoned human rights activist Azimboy Ataniyazov does not understand why Tashkent and Nukus are reluctant to allow foreign experts. “What are we hiding?" Ataniyazov asked.

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