A former British ambassador disclosed the details of CIA and their torture in prisons of Uzbekistan to the central Asian countries. He said that the so called reliable CIA depended on tortures such as raping the suspects with broken bottles and even boiling them alive.

Craig Murray was UK’s ambassador to Uzbekistan until 2004 and now currently working as the rector of the university of Dundee in Scotland.

Craig Murray disclosed in a lecture which was re-broadcasted by Real News Network that “I’m talking of people being raped with broken bottles”.

He continued expressing sorrow that “I’m talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I’m talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on”.

Even though Human rights groups have been raising alarm about the systems in Uzbekistan it is hardly heard by any official authority. Depressed with the situation the Human rights groups in 2007 declared that the tortures have become the “endemic” to the country’s justice system.

Murray revealed that he realized this only during his consignment as ambassador, that CIA was sending people for torture to Uzbekistan. He says the authorities of the country are true “totalitarian” and that the state has never moved from its communist ideals.

He continued that the suspects in Uzbekistan’s gulags “were being told to confess to membership in Al Qaeda. They were told to confess they’d been in training camps in Afghanistan. They were told to confess they had met Osama bin Laden in person. And the CIA intelligence constantly echoed these themes”.

Murray pitied “I was absolutely stunned– it changed my whole world view in an instant- to be told that London knew (the intelligence) coming from torture, that it was not illegal because our legal advisers had decided that under the United Nations convention against torture, it is not illegal to obtain or use intelligence gained from torture as long as we didn’t do the torture ourselves”.

Murray insists that the motivation for involvement by US and British military in war in central Asia and middle east is the large natural deposits in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. As evidence he pointed to the plans of building a pipeline for gas through Afghanistan which would allow Western companies to avoid Russia and Iran when the gas is transported out of region.

Murray also confessed that in 1990s then-Texas Governor George W. Bush met the Uzbek ambassador to the US and discussed about the pipeline in that region and in that meeting it was decided that they would see Texas-based Enron gain the rights to Uzbekistan’s natural gas deposits.

He said “The consultant who was organizing this for Unocal was a certain Mr. Karzai, who is now president of Afghanistan”.

Murray asserted that the threat of Islamic terrorism was hyped by the western nations in order to get the countries on one side of war till they could achieve their goal. He said they forced confessions in Uzbekistan through various disturbing tortures to obtain proof to support their so called War on terror.

He said “There are designs of this pipeline, and if you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, as against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you’ll see that undoubtedly the US forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It’s what it’s about. It’s about money, it’s about oil, it’s not about democracy”.

The pipeline is scheduled to be completed by 2014, with $7.6 billion investment from the Asian Development Banks.

Murray was first casted of from his duty in 2004 because he publicly raised allegations that the British Government was torturing innocents in Uzbekistan based on its intelligence program.

The video of his lecture can be watched on youtube with the keyword ‘UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture’.

(courtesy : the raw story)