"There is no point in having cocktail-party relationships with a fascist regime." posted by Richard Seymour

In Uzbekistan, they boil people to death. Thousands are tortured as a matter of government policy each year. Rape and beatings are so widespread that hundreds of women are treated for self-immolation and attempted suicide in a refuge at Samarkand. The regime in Tashkent is "kleptocratic", and uses "torture as a routine investigation technique". That's why it has British support.

That is why the British Ambassador to Tashkent was smeared by his employers, disciplined and harrassed in ways that ultimately left him seeking psychiatric help. Read his interview with Nick Paton Walsh in The Guardian . And please don't waste my time with that bullshit about 'humanitarian foreign policy' again.