Field Reports
MEDIA OUTLOOK GRIM IN NORTHERN KAZAKHSTAN
By Marat Yermukanov (8/2/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Not long after Kazakhstan gained independence, the day celebrating the press called the "Journalism Day" was moved from May 5th to June 28th. This was purely a symbolic gesture to break with the Soviet tradition. But in the Northern Kazakhstan region the numerous Russian-speaking journalists did not enthusiastically welcomed this change.
UYGHUR LIBERATION ORGANIZATION STRIKES AGAINST "COLLABORATORS"
By Aziz Soltobaev, student of American University in Kyrgyzstan, Economics faculty (8/2/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan reported that it had broken up a band of terrorists called the "Uyghur Liberation Organization." Militant Uyghur extremists established the "Uyghur Liberation Organization" several years ago in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to struggle against Chinese government oppression of its Uyghur population. Kyrgyzstan, which borders Xinjiang and where more than 50,000 Uyghurs live, has become the central stage for the Uyghurs to exact vengeance against Han Chinese and Uyghur "collaborators" with the Chinese state.
TERRORIST STRIKE IN UZBEKISTAN POINTS AGAIN TO NAMANGANI
By Konstantin Parshin, Radio NIC, Tajikistan (8/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Since August 7, the Military Forces of Uzbekistan have been carrying out an operation to annihilate terrorist units acting within the Uzbek-Tajik border region, in the Sarassiya and Surkhan-Daria provinces of Uzbekistan. For the time being some 100 fighters, allegedly belonging to the field commander Juma Namangani, are trapped by Uzbek military units within the two settlements of Zevar and Kshtud, some 20 km from Tajikistan territory.
The Tajik media announced that there have been casualties among the Uzbek army forces.
ASTANA’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
By Andrei Emelin (8/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Astana, the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, hosted its first international exhibition called "Karaotkel (‘Capital’) 2000," that gathered representatives from over 90 enterprises from the 16 regions of Kazakhstan, regions of Russia (Omsk, Tumen, Samara, and Nizhny Novgorod), and even from Kyrgyzstan. The mayor of Astana with the assistance of "Atakent-Expo" an international exhibition company organized the exhibition. The overall goals of the exhibition were to show the wide range of products that are currently produced by Kazakhstan’s enterprises.
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Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.