Andizhan

[ ahn-di-zhahn; Russian uhn-dyi-zhahn ]

noun

1. a city in E Uzbekistan, SE of Tashkent.

Andizhan

/ andiˈʒan /

noun

1. a city in E Uzbekistan. Pop: 413 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

In the Uzbek city of Andizhan in May 2005, security forces killed around 500 mostly unarmed people who had been protesting against local officials, witnesses and rights groups said.

From Reuters

Karimov has been shunned by most Western leaders for human rights abuses, especially after a bloody crackdown on protests in the town of Andizhan in 2005.

From Reuters

Zeman rejected the NGOs' criticism, saying he was merely heeding an invitation to Karimov extended by his predecessor Vaclav Klaus back in 2004 - before the Andizhan shootings - and he denied that the Uzbek president was internationally isolated.

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"In fact, he is rightly shunned by most Western leaders, particularly after the Andizhan massacre of 2005, in which his security forces shot into crowds of mostly peaceful protesters in that city, killing hundreds."

From Reuters

Frosty relations with the West worsened further after he used force to suppress protests in the eastern town of Andizhan in 2005.

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