Andijan massacre

When

13 May 2005

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

187

Coordinates

40.78° N, 72.35° E

Description

violent incident in Andijan, Uzbekistan

Violent incident in Andijan, Uzbekistan

On 13 May 2005, protests erupted in Andijan, Uzbekistan. At one point, troops from the Uzbek National Security Service (SNB) fired into a crowd of protesters. Estimates of those killed on 13 May range from 187, the official count of the government, to several hundred. A defector from the SNB alleged that 1,500 were killed.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops massacre at least 200 protesters in the city of Andijan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Andican olayları: Özbekistan'ın Andican şehrinde güvenlik güçleri en az 200 protestocuyu öldürdü”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Вооружённый мятеж в Узбекистане: захвачена тюрьма города Андижан, на свободе оказались более 4000 заключённых”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page