Uzbek government dismisses call for international probe

Saturday, May 21, 2005

ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan -- Defying growing calls Friday for an international inquiry into the bloody suppression of anti-government riots, President Islam Karimov's regime rounded up suspected participants in the unrest, which human rights activists say killed hundreds.

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