Tashkenter

One young Osh Uzbek man traveled to Tashkent in 2004 and met residents there who were eager to tell their stories of hardship to him, an outsider. A Tashkenter said he could not buy shoes or schoolbooks for his children, and another exclaimed, “At least you Oshliks [Osh residents] have Akaev, thank God, and economic freedom.”