Saturday, October 01, 2005

Dr. Akiner again

The controversy around Dr. Shirin Akiner has heated up. The former British ambassador to Uzbekistan has sent a letter to SOAS asking that she be investigated by the ethics committee. Since she was my supervisor for my MA, I can not really take a neutral stance on this. I find the attacks on Dr. Akiner's character by some people to be wholly unwarranted. At any rate Nathan Hamm at Registan has another detailed discussion of the issues involved. I will note that Nathan himself has been very fair in his coverage of Dr. Akiner.

4 comments:

Anodyne said...

J. Otto

Apart from Dr. Akiner's recent report on Andijon, has she written any other policy pieces or statements laying out her positions that you can point me to?

J. Otto Pohl said...

Sorry, I can not point to anything off the top of my head.

Anodyne said...

Is there an email address at which you can be contacted? If you do not wish to publish it you can contact me at anodyne5@yahoo.com

J. Otto Pohl said...

My e-mail is on several blog entries here. It is pohlcat [the at sign] rocketmail [the dot] com.