Officials See Slander in Uzbekistan
by: Ellen Barry
Article was published: February 10, 2010
photo of an Uzbekistan boy was among those by Umida Akhmedova that prosecutors said intentionally showed village life in an unflattering light.
MY REVIEW
I found that government officials in the boy's own country said the picture was depressing. That striked to me as odd. Does the government not know that there country is getting help from other countries? If they do, then why do they want foreigners, like us, to think that they are ok? That people die of hunger every day and they are the ones who can decrease the starvation rate? The government can also build homeless shelters so citizens who have nothing can at least have a place to sleep.
Some other things I found worth while to share with you are the following: by showing people with sour expressions or bowed heads, children in ragged clothing, old people begging for change or other images so dreary that, (according to a panel of experts convened by the prosecutors) a foreigner unfamiliar with Uzbekistan will conclude that this is a country where people live in the middle ages. Now i don't know about you, but i don't think thats fair.
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