According to representatives of the commission, its chairman, Mikhammadilkh Yuldashev, today revealed some of the preliminary findings to foreign diplomats accredited in Uzbekistan. He said those behind the armed disturbances had wanted to seize political power in the region and then destabilize the situation in the rest of the country and in Central Asia in general.
The commission representatives also said the investigation had identified incidents of negligence and irresponsible conduct on the part of local government officials and law-enforcers. The commission made a thorough analysis of how the events in Andijan had unfolded, and tried to give an adequate legal assessment to the response of the government and law-enforcement agencies. It also compared its own statistics on the casualties in Andijan with the figures cited by various foreign sources. Yuldashev said his commission was willing to continue cooperation with an international team probing the Andijan events.
A group of foreign diplomats accredited in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, is planning to visit Andijan and the surrounding region in the near future, the commission representatives told RIA Novosti.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan, 176 people were killed and 295 others injured in Andijan in the May unrest.
