http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2007/08/22/mysterious-an-24-crash/This is in response to “Malleus Maleficarum?
Posted by Jamiyat | in Oddities, Culture, Language | on August 24th, 2007 Tags: No Tags” published on Uzbek page, but it is moderated in such a way that does not accept opponent opinion.
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“What is next? Can one now expect the Uzbek reaction and the banning of discs by the famous Tajik singer in Uzbekistan Daler Nazarov, as well as the ban of all other songs sung by Uzbekistani singers in Tajik language? Banning of recording studios and weddings in the Uzbek cities of Samarkand and Bukhara for using the Tajik language?”
This is exactly what has been done for the past about hundred years. And your comments demonstrate how retaliatory is the way of your thinking, you are no more different from Izlam Karimov.
Do you you will be happy if you ban Daler Nazar and Tajik singers of Samarkand and Bukhara from singing in their own language??? Your comments will prove this. This way of thinking is undemocratic and reactionary.
I would say NO, if Kyrgyz or Tajik authorities banned Uzbek music for whatever reason (it is not yet clear, it is you who allege that they banned namely Uzbek music) the other party should not follow the same suit, if it thinks it is more democratic and more libertarian than others. But if you think you are worse than others, you could do the same, even worse.
Regarding Tajik culture in Uzbekistan, there for over the past hundred years there were widespread intimidation, forced assimilation, discrimination to wipe out Tajik culture and uzbekify the whole population.
Samarkand and Bukhara being completely Tajik cities have very few Tajik schools, very few tajik TV-Radio programmes, I have come accross many people who say they are Tajik but in their passports their nationality is mentioned as Uzbek.
Many great personalities of Tajikistan, cultural elite come from uzbekistan, most of them are those who were given a choice “either become Uzbek or leav uzbekistan” and they preferred to migrate to Tajikistan.
In Uzbekistan Tajik singers have always been oppressed, forced to stop singing in their mother tongue. Recently I saw a young man in Uzbekistan who said that no studio recorded his songs because he sings in tajik, so he was going to migrate to Kazakhstan or elsewhere. Nowhere in Uzbekistan you can find CDs and DVDs of Tajik singers, very rarely you will find Daler Nazar, probably because authorities do not know that he is Tajik.
Bringing Tajik newspapers, books, video and audio cassets, DVDs, CDs and VCDs from Tajikistan is not allowed and Uzbek custosm officials seize them, this has been going on for long time, but no one noticed, nobody raised the issue.
In fact, seizing of video or audio products in Tajik markets has nothing to do with banning of Uzbek music, it done for the sace of Copyright. Copiright is widely violated in all Central Asian countries, but in Tajikistan authorities try to observe the law, therefore both ministry of culture and police organis raids and collect all pirated products from markets and destroy them, this is normal, it is done everywhere even in Western countries.
So, get calm poor boy, nobody banned uzbek music.
