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The Cost of Cotton

submitted by persephone

1 decade 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago

The high cost of the Uzbekistan cotton industry on the environment and the people.

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Am from Uzbekistan. This is all because of the fucking goverment that is just raping my nation over and over again, the whole thing is mafia from the soviet times. Across the border Kazakhstan is booming economically while our goverment seeks only to oppress the people and media.

They just shot up civilians protesting ridiculous goverment taxes and actions mercilessly, and then turned around and said it was terrorists... Everyone in the world turned a blind eye because of The Global War on Terror. Uzbekistan kicked the US forces out, and got all cushy with Putin. Even if the western countries embargo cotton from Uzbekistan, all that will do is drive Uzbekistan into the arms of Russia even more, who are looking to strike pipeline deals for our natural gas reservoirs.

I wish I could just assassinate the entire fucking cabinet and hang the president because they have been committing crimes against our own people ever since we gained 'independence', its such a facade and it makes me sick.

perse, can you add "aral sea" to the tags?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'water mismanagmnt, child labour, aral sea' to 'water mismanagment, child labour, aral sea' - edited by kulpims

*worldaffairs *news *humanitarian

Adding video to channels (Humanitarian, News, Worldaffairs) - requested by Farhad2000.

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