Silencing Central Asia The Voice of Dissidents Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives

Hearing on how the prospects for democracy & respect for human rights have progressively deteriorated in the 5 countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, & Kyrgyztan. Witnesses: Michael Parmly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor; William Taylor, Jr., Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to the New Independent States, U.S. Dept. of State; Cassandra Cavanaugh, Assist. Prof. of History, College of the Holy Cross; Bigeldin Gabdullin, Journalist; Ariel Cohen, Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Fdn.; Frank Smyth, Washington Dir., Committee to Protect Journalists; & Oleg Kviatkovski, Exec. Dir., TV-Radio Station 31 Channel, Almaty, Kazakhstan.Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana is the author of 'Silencing Central Asia The Voice of Dissidents Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives' with ISBN 9780756730062 and ISBN 0756730066.