FILM- Andijan, A Massacre Foretold, Frontline Club, London, May 14, 2007

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FILM- Andijan, A Massacre Foretold, Frontline Club, London, May 14, 2007

Posted by: Events <events@frontlineclub.com>

Who: Frontline Club, journalist Michael Andersen and Dr. Anna Matveeva
Where: Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ*
When: Mon 14th May, 7.30pm
What: Screening 'Andijan, a massacre foretold' followed by discussion

To register for an event and/or for more information please go to:

http://www.frontlineclub.com/club_events.php?event=377 or contact us by
email: events@frontlineclub.com, or telephone: +44 (0) 20 7479 8942.

'Screening: Andijan, a massacre foretold'

Followed by discussion between filmmaker and journalist Michael
Andersen and Dr. Anna Matveeva, Associate Fellow at the Crisis States
Research Centre at the London School of Economics.

Combining stunning visual images and political analysis, journalist
Michael Andersen takes viewers on a journey spanning the globe to
investigate the West's share of the responsibility for the largest
government-sponsored massacre since Tiananmen Square.

In May 2005, Uzbek soldiers opened fire on 15,000 peaceful
demonstrators, including many women and children, in Andijan. The
soldiers confiscated cameras and mobile phones from those that fled
the area. The lack of footage of the massacre meant there there was
very little attention given to the murder of 1,000 people that day.
Western governments in particular were reluctant to bring attention to
their embarrassing ally in the War on Terror.

Interviews with eye-witnesses, politicians and experts reveal that
prior to the massacre, the West gave the brutal dictatorship cart
blanche to do as they wished in return for being allowed to position
military bases in their country to be used in the War on Terror.

Since the massacre the EU, led by Germany, has gone to great lengths
(and silently suffered many humiliations) to ensure that our relations
with the brutal Uzbek regime continue undiminished.

Dr. Anna Matveeva is the author of a Chaillot Paper for the EU
Institute for Security Studies on the 'EU Stakes in Central Asia',
Chatham House Paper on 'The North Caucasus: Russia's Fragile
Borderland' and a recent report for International Alert on 'Central
Asia: Strategic Framework for Peacebuilding'.

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