AcknowledgmentsThis report was researched and written by a team of Human Rights Watch researchers and consultants. It was edited by Rachel Denber, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia division, and Iain Levine, program director of Human Rights Watch. Dinah PoKempner, general counsel for Human Rights Watch, also reviewed the report. Acacia Shields, senior researcher for the Europe and Central Asia division, also edited the report, and Veronika Leila Szente Goldston, advocacy director for the Europe and Central Asia division, contributed to the recommendations. Valuable technical support was provided by Inara Gulpe-Laganovska and Anna Sinelnikova, associates from the Europe and Central Asia division in New York. Eugene A. Sokoloff and another intern in the Europe and Central Asia division provided additional assistance. Human Rights Watch extends its gratitude to all those who have shared their stories with us for this report. We particularly want to recognize the courageous and important work of Uzbekistan’s human rights defenders, independent journalists, and political activists, who have risked much to tell the truth about what happened in Andijan on May 13, 2005 and in its aftermath. Human Rights Watch is profoundly grateful to the Open Society Institute for its generous support of our work in Central Asia.
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