Biased Chapter on Tajikistan Promotes CIA & Saudi funded Islamic Terrorism. Amnesty Int´l Report

In thirty seven earlier articles, I republished all the preliminary parts and 29 chapters - profiles of Asiatic and African countries, featured in the Amnesty International 2010 Annual Report which was released a few days ago. Titles of and links to these articles are available in the latest of the series:

Amnesty International 2010 Report. Chapter on Turkmenistan

(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/161223)

To complete the series, I will add a few more Asia-focused chapters of the Report, as I did already with the following:

Amnesty International 2010 Report. Chapter on Afghanistan

(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/161337)

Amnesty International 2010 Report. Chapter on Uzbekistan

(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/161347)

In the present article, I republish the chapter on Tajikistan. The Central Asiatic country is an oasis of sociopolitical, cultural and religious tolerance, and it is quite normal that the local authorities do everything they can to preserve it as such, and therefore shield it against the propagation of religious extremists who have long been formed and prepared by the colonial powers France and England since the 19th century, in the Ottoman territories that they put under their control first.

Religious extremism has always been alien in Central Asia, and even more so in Tajikistan; Islamic fanaticism was in fact produced in Egypt, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia as a result of the incestuous mixture of evil, fake ideologies, Islamism and Pan-Arabism, which were all produced in the Freemasonic ateliers of the Anglo-French Orientalists, and then projected onto selected, gullible students of the said territories. When America rose to prominence, the explosive material was ready, and the neocolonial regime of Washington attempted to use it against the Soviet Union.

It is well known that Afghanistan was fanaticized and driven to extremism only because of the calamitous exportation of the filthy byproducts of the Western colonialism, the legions of the so-called Islamic fighters who are viciously un-Islamic and anti-Islamic without even understanding it. If the idiotic Saudi and other Arabic-speaking extremists were not on the CIA payroll (effectuated under Saudi governmental coverage), the peaceful Afghani Muslims would never be able to undertake a successful revolution against the USSR.

The Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that controls the regimes of Washington, London and Paris has planned to spread chaos in Central Asia to later use it against Islam, Russia and China. Tajikistan has long been targeted by the British Intelligence and the CIA, and for this reason, the Dushanbe government created a fully legitimate shield to prevent the diffusion of extremist, pseudo-Islamic ideas, doctrines, ideologies and individuals in Tajikistan.

Contrarily to the ignorant and biased authors of the Amnesty International chapter on Tajikistan and their pathetic and dangerous assumptions, the existing Tajik legislation is absolutely pertinent in both, respecting Human Rights´ principles and at the same time defending the country´s traditional religious doctrine, i.e. Hanafi Sunni Islam, against the pseudo-Muslim, Wahhabi and Hanbali sheikhs who intend to spread Islamic extremism under their masquerade and through surreptitious use of the limitless religious freedom that Amnesty International gullibly defends as practice in order to serve the combined US – Anglo-French interests against Islam, China and Russia.

If one truly cares for the welfare and prospect of the Tajik people, and aspires for peace and tolerance in Tajikistan and Central Asia, one has to congratulate the Tajik authorities for having closed down the CIA / Saudi-financed Jamaat-ut Tabligh and being tough with every Wahhabi Saudi pseudo-sheikh.

As a matter of fact, the present chapter on Tajikistan demonstrates only that Amnesty International 2010 Report can be extremely biased and definitely dangerous when the target is to serve the colonial regimes´ interests by idiotically misinterpreting otherwise valuable concepts like the Freedom of Religion.

Freedom of Religion does not mean tolerance for the inhuman beasts of Saudi Arabia.

Republic of Tajikistan –Profile

Head of state: Emomali Rakhmon

Head of government: Okil Okilov

Death penalty: abolitionist in practice

Population: 7 million

Life expectancy: 66.4 years

Under-5 mortality (m/f): 83/74 per 1,000

Adult literacy: 99.6 per cent

The authorities failed to adequately address violence against women. Freedom of expression remained restricted. The government continued to exert tight control over the exercise of religion. Reports of torture and other ill-treatment by law enforcement officers continued.

Violence against women

Between a third and a half of women in Tajikistan have experienced physical, psychological or sexual abuse by husbands or other family members. Despite some initial steps by the government to combat domestic violence, women´s access to the criminal justice system was restricted, and services to protect victims of domestic violence such as shelters and adequate alternative housing were virtually nonexistent.

Women massively under-reported violence against them, fearing reprisals or because of inadequate response by the police and judiciary, resulting in virtual impunity for the perpetrators. Domestic violence was widely justified as a "family matter" by the authorities wishing to promote traditional gender roles. Women and girls were even more vulnerable to domestic violence because of early and unregistered marriages and an increased early drop-out rate from school. The draft law on protection from domestic violence, in preparation for several years, was still not presented to parliament.

Freedom of religion

The Jehovah´s Witnesses remained banned across the country and members of the Sunni missionary group Jamaat-ut Tabligh came under increased pressure. In March, President Rakhmon signed a new law, making it mandatory for religious groups to register with the authorities before 1 January 2010. To obtain the registration the applicant must prove that the group has existed in Tajikistan for at least five years. The law also states that all published or imported religious literature must be approved by the government. The Muslim community is singled out for special restrictions, with limits imposed on the number of mosques and state approval required for the appointment of imams. Cathedral mosques are only permitted in towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants. Religious organizations now require the permission of the Ministry of Culture´s Religious Affairs Committee before attending religious conferences abroad or inviting foreign visitors.

In February, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Jehovah´s Witnesses against their ban, declared by the government in October 2007.

The authorities continued to close, confiscate and destroy Muslim and Christian places of worship, without explanation. In April, the Higher Economic Court rejected an appeal by the Grace Sunmin Church against the confiscation of their place of worship in the capital, Dushanbe. Compensation offered was insufficient to build another church.

In August, the Supreme Court sentenced five members of Jamaat-ut Tabligh to between three and six years´ imprisonment for "public appeals to overthrow the constitutional order". The Court claimed that the sentences were based on a 2006 alleged ban of the group as an "extremist and terrorist organization", but provided no evidence of such a ban, whose existence was disputed. The accused rejected the charges, insisting that they had no political agenda and that the movement´s activities were based on the values of Sunni Islam´s Hanafi school, the majority religion in Tajikistan.

Torture and ill-treatment

Reports of torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement officials continued, in particular to extract confessions in police detention during the first 72 hours, the maximum period suspects could be held without charge.

On 27 June, Khurshed Bobokalonov, a specialist at the Tajikistani Oncology Centre, died after being arrested by the police. He had been walking along the street when police stopped him and accused him of being drunk. He protested, and some 15 policemen bundled him into a police car. The Ministry of the Interior claimed that he died of a heart attack on the way to the police station. His mother reported injuries on her son´s face and body, and on 22 July the Minister of the Interior announced an investigation into possible "death through negligence". There was no public information about the progress of the investigation by the end of the year.

Freedom of expression – journalists

Independent newspapers and journalists continued to face criminal and civil law suits for criticizing the government, resulting in self-censorship of the media. In October, the government introduced a new decree obliging journalists to request, in writing, information such as laws, policies and government statements, and pay a fee of 25 Somoni (around US$4.50) per page. The Tajikistani National Alliance of Independent Media said the decree violated the Constitution´s guarantee of free access to information.

Amnesty International visit/reports

Amnesty International representatives visited Tajikistan in July.

Violence is not just a family matter: Women face abuse in Tajikistan (EUR 60 / 001 / 2009)

Women and girls in Tajikistan: Facing violence, discrimination and poverty (EUR 60 / 002 / 2009)

Remove barriers to girls´ education in Tajikistan (EUR 60 / 005 / 2009)

Note

Picture: Tajikistan, ethnic map

From: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/tajikistan_ethnic_92.jpg