Aha ays tyrant-i masin mi kani paster miayn voronk tsuyts en talis te inchpes er inknakoch tagavorn spanum azatutyan u demokratiayi bolo huysern:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6201669.stm
The president, who ordered his citizens to call him Turkmenbashi, or father of the Turkmen, created the world's most relentless personality cult after North Korea.
He renamed the month of January after himself and April after his mother; he banned ballet, gold teeth and recorded music; he ordered the construction of a lake in the midst of the desert and a ski resort on the snowless foothills of the Iranian border...
Turkmenbashi could afford these follies de grandeur because his country enjoys the world's fifth biggest reserves of natural gas...
Income from gas deals rarely finds its way into state coffers, most of his five million citizens live in poverty and life expectancy is on a par with some of the poorest parts of Africa.
Last summer the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said the country was on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.
It published a report on Turkmenistan's healthcare, which it described as poor even by the "grossly inadequate" standards of post-Soviet countries.
It said the culture of secrecy under Niyazov's dictatorship extended to banning the reporting of infectious diseases such as anthrax, HIV/Aids and the bubonic plague...
Informants from the MNB (the KGB's successor organisation) infiltrate all levels of society. Those who seek to dissent were punished by torture, imprisonment, house arrest, surveillance and incarceration in psychiatric facilities...
There have been some brave exceptions. Annakurban Amanklychev, who worked with us, is one of them. But he paid a very heavy price.
Over the course of three days this summer, Turkmenistan's interior ministry (formerly the local KGB) arrested him along with a handful of other journalists, human rights activists and their relatives..
The trial took place with no relatives in attendance. Amanklychev and a fellow human rights worker received seven-year sentences.
Ogulsapar Muradova, the correspondent for Radio Free Europe Liberty, was jailed for six years but a fortnight later she was dead...
Her children, who were only allowed to see her body after intervention from the US embassy, said she had a deep head wound and marks of strangulation. One leg was broken, and the arms and legs were punctured where injections had been administered. ..
It is not just the crisis in healthcare that is a cause of such deep concern. Mr Niyazov's assault on education has been equally pernicious.
School and university syllabuses have been drastically cut and fewer girls attend classes. The universal textbook is the Ruhnama, the president's spiritual guide for his people, a mixture of political indoctrination and Turkmen history that pupils have to learn by heart. ..
Mi hresh el gnats..
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))) uchis', u nas ne turkmenbashi, a verxovniy glavkom!
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