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Karakalpakstan’s sovereignty in Mirziyoyev’s Uzbekistan Analysis by The Diplomat

24 May 2023 05:00

According to an analysis published by The Diplomat, Karakalpakstan has a constitutional right to secede from Uzbekistan via referendum, but calling for such a vote results in immense pressure and often prison terms. Caliber.Az reprints the article.

“Karakalpakstan is not Uzbekistan,” Aman Sagidullayev, the leader of the Alga Karakalpakstan movement stressed to The Diplomat.

Sagidullayev fled his homeland in 2012 for Kyrgyzstan and eventually even farther abroad. His movement’s demand for a referendum on independence in Karakalpakstan was viewed by Tashkent as nothing short of rank separatism.

“We Karakalpaks, apart from freedom, do not need anything,” he told The Diplomat recently.

We spoke in the wake of his conviction and sentencing in absentia by an Uzbek court on May 10 for a litany of charges, including insulting the president of Uzbekistan, conspiracy to overthrow the constitutional order, organizing riots, and other charges derived, in part, from the unrest in Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakstan, last summer.

Another Karakalpak activist, Kazakhstan-based Neitbay Urazbayev, who heads the Karakalpak ethno-cultural centre “Allayar Zholy” in Mangistau, was convicted on similar charges, also in absentia.

Sagidullayev and Urazbayev “are known for their energetic involvement in Karakalpak diaspora issues,” explained Steve Swerdlow, an associate professor of the practice of human rights at the University of Southern California. “While significant activists in the Karakalpak diaspora, [they] did not have the capacity nor the ability to organize such mass protests as witnessed in July 2022.”

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