#WorldatFive 🌎: Up to 2 million have fled a despotic regime where statues are made of gold but eggs are a delicacy for ordinary people condemned to poverty. thetimes.co.uk/article/turkme…
In March last year 59 Turkmen were poisoned after drinking pure alcohol.
It was Turkmenistan’s official silence on that incident, then on a hurricane that swept though the country’s Lebap and Mary provinces in April last year, that jolted a handful of exiles into activism.
It was Turkmenistan’s official silence on that incident, then on a hurricane that swept though the country’s Lebap and Mary provinces in April last year, that jolted a handful of exiles into activism.
“Some people sent videos of the storm to relatives outside the country, and they were shared very quickly on social media. Then the regime started putting pressure on the people who had sent them. Some have been sent to psychiatric hospitals.”
Read more: thetimes.co.uk/article/turkme…
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