This article is a list of events in the year 2005 in

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President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Islam Karimov Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov (30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was an Uzbek politician who served as the first president of Uzbekistan, from the country's independence in 1991 until his death in 2016. He was the last First Secretary of the ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Shavkat Mirziyoyev Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev (born 24 July 1957) is an Uzbek politician who has served as President of Uzbekistan and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan since 14 December 2016. Previously, Mirziyoyev led the gover ...

Events

May

* May 13 -

Andijan Massacre On 13 May 2005, protests erupted in Andijan, Uzbekistan. At one point, troops from the Uzbek National Security Service (SNB) fired into a crowd of protesters. Estimates of those killed on 13 May range from 187, the official count of the governme ...

** Thousands of Uzbeks take over a high security jail in

Andijan Andijan ( ), also spelt Andijon () and formerly romanized as Andizhan ( ), is a city in Uzbekistan. It is the administrative, economic, and cultural center of Andijan Region. Andijan is a district-level city with an area of . Andijan is the most ...

freeing thousands in protest against the jail sentence of 23 businessmen accused of being Islamic extremists. ** Violence erupts in Andijan with demands from the rally for the government to resign. ** Over 500 protesters have been shot dead by riot police. ** A man with mental illness is shot fatally outside the

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i embassy in the capital of

Tashkent Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...

, with government sources alleging him to be a suicide bomber. * May 14 - Thousands of Uzbeks return to the streets in protests despite the massacre yesterday. * May 15 - Andijan is sealed shut by the government with British Foreign Secretary

Jack Straw John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretar ...

telling the BBC that there has been a "clear abuse of human rights" in Uzbekistan. * May 16 - Uzbek authorities seal another city shut. This time, it is

Qorasuv Qorasuv (also ''Korasuv'', ''Karasu''; ) is a city in Qoʻrgʻontepa District of Andijan Region in eastern Uzbekistan, about 50 km from the district capital of Andijan. The town's name means "black water" in Uzbek (''qora'' - black, ''suv' ...

near the border to

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where many have fled the violence. * May 18 - The border town of Qorasuv is claimed to be under control of a new Islamic administration led by

Baxtiyor Rahimov Baxtiyor Rahimov (Russified form ''Bakhtiyar Rahimov'' is also used; ) (born c. 1963) is a rebel leader in Uzbekistan who advocates an Islamic republic. He is currently being held by the Uzbek government. Background Little is known of Rahimov's ...

. * May 19 - Qorasuv is retaken by the Uzbek military and arrest Rahimov. Officials claim 169 were killed in the unrest but many sources claim over 500 have been killed.

June

* June 7 -

Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Headquartered in New York City, the group investigates and reports on issues including War crime, war crimes, crim ...

demands an investigation into the unrest and accuses the government of covering up a massacre.

References

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