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Craig Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing appalling human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of President Islam Karimov. In this candid and at times shocking memoir, he lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror. In Uzbekistan, the land of Alexander the Great and Tamburlaine, lurks one of the most hideous tyrannies on earth - one founded on cotton slavery and brutal torture. As neighbouring 'liberated' Afghanistan produces record levels of heroin, the Uzbek rulers cash in on massive trafficking. They are even involved in trafficking their own women to prostitution in the West. But this did not prevent Karimov being viewed as a key US ally in the War on Terror. When Craig Murray arrived in Uzbekistan, he was a young Ambassador with a brilliant career and a taste for whisky and women. But after hearing accounts of dissident prisoners being boiled to death and innocent people being raped and murdered by agents of the state, he started to question both his role and that of his country in so-called 'democratising' states. When Murray decided to go public with his shocking findings, Washington and 10 Downing Street reached the conclusion that he had to go. But Uzbekistan had changed the high-living diplomat and there was no way he was going to go quietly.
| ISBN | 1845961943 | | Pages | 400 | | ISBN13 | 9781845961947
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 682 | | Publisher | Mainstream Publishing | | Published in | Edinburgh | | Imprint | Mainstream Publishing | | Height (mm) | 242 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 163 | | Publication date | 29 Jun 2006 | | Spine width (mm) | 35 | | DEWEY | 323.04409587092 | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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"I thought that diplomats like Craig Murray were an extinct breed. A man of the highest principle" -- John Pilger "The Uzbek people know only one word for Craig Murray: hero" -- Mohammad Salih, Uzbek Opposition Leader "Fantastic ... [like] a very funny version of a Graham Greene novel" -- Michael Winterbottom, Film Director "The actions of this brave and principled man have certainly exposed the "war on terror" for the sick charade that it is" Morning Star "There is plenty of black comedy in this frank story of the disillusionment and downfall of one of Britain's brightest young ambassadors" The Guardian  Be the first to write a customer review
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