That candidate, Muhammad Salih, was a member of the Erk Party.
The only candidate opposing this man during his first election was arrested in Prague in connection to the detonation of six car bombs in 1998. That candidate, Muhammad Salih, was a member of the Erk Party. A defector from this man's cabinet claimed that the Islamist group Akramia was actually founded by this man's government. This leader had his military enclose Babur Square and fire at hundreds of protesters during the (*) Andijan massacre. An ambassador to this leader, Craig Murray, claimed that his government often boiled prisoners alive in the book Murder in Samarkand. This leader has ruled unopposed since 1990, the longest of any leader of a former Soviet republic. For 10 points, one-up Herman Cain and name this first and only President of Uzbekistan.
The only candidate opposing this man during his first election was arrested in Prague in connection to the detonation of six car bombs in 1998.
Islam Karimov