Akromiya

Akromiya (sometimes referd as "Akramiya", in Russian : Акрамия) is an Islamist organization founded by Akrom Yo‘ldoshev that has been designated as terrorist by the Government of Uzbekistan.Fact|date=April 2008

Akromiya broke away from Hizb ut-Tahrir, a commonly designated terrorist organization, when Akrom Yo‘ldoshev formed Akromiya in the Fergana Valley area in Uzbekistan in 1996. The Uzbek Government says Yo‘ldoshev's pamphlet "Yimonga Yul" (Way to Faith) criticizes HT's goal of creating an international caliphate for impracticality. Yo‘ldoshev argues in favor of creating an Islamic state on a local level instead. [http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav202103.shtml Hizb ut-Tahrir faces internal split in Central Asia] EurasiaNet] [http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav041405.shtml Islamic group bides time on the sidelines of Kyrgyzstan's revolution] EurasiaNet] [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200610/ai_n17194604 Inventing Akromiya: the role of Uzbek propagandists in the Andijon massacre] Demokratizatsiya]

Muhammad Sadik Muhammad Yusuf, the former Chief Mufti of Uzbekistan, said, "Akromiya has nothing in common with Hizb-ut-Tahrir, and other radical political Islamic organisations. It is for entirely different reasons that I consider Akrom Yo‘ldoshev's teaching a heresy." Yusuf says Yo‘ldoshev teaches that Muslims do not have to pray five times daily or fast during Ramadan. [http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=586 Uzbekistan: What is known about Akramia and the uprising?] Forum 18] Journalists for "Demokratizatsiya" have cast doubt on its existence, saying the Uzbek government created the organization to justify putting down the 2005 civil unrest in Uzbekistan.

Andijan massacre

Forum 18, a human rights organization based in Norway, reported that during the Andijan massacre members of Akromiya "who had acquired weapons did not prevent free movement out of the square by those gathered there, but their attitude to the hostages did not meet international standards for the treatment of prisoners of war. Forum 18 learnt that several hostages received severe beatings. The hostages had wire tied round their necks and were placed at the perimeter of the square as human shields. Therefore the first to die from the shots fired by Uzbek government forces were the hostages."

ee also

*Hizb-an-Nusra
*Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami
*Terrorism in Uzbekistan
*Terrorism in Kazakhstan
*Counter-terrorism in Kazakhstan

References

External links

* [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/05/8ef6fb25-fa97-4fa3-9bc6-44b185158137.html Radio Free Europe]
* [http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=586 Outline of what is known about Akramia and the Andijan events]
* [http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=778 Analysis of whether the May 2005 Andijan events changed state religious policy in the year following]
* [http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp051305.shtml Uzbek soldiers fire at Akramiya in Andijon]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4548371.stm BBC article]
* [http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav202103.shtml Hizb ut-Tahrir faces internal split in Central Asia]