Uzbek President Islam Karimov 'in intensive care'

[bigworld]

Source: Al Jazeera

Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the central Asian nation for more than 25 years, is in intensive care after suffering a brain haemorrhage, according to his daughter.

"My father was hospitalised after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage on Saturday morning, and is now receiving treatment in an intensive care unit," Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva wrote on Instagram on Monday of her 78-year-old father.

Karimova-Tillyaeva, who is also Uzbekistan's ambassador to UNESCO, added that "his condition is considered stable" but that it was "too early to make any predictions about his future health" at the moment.

The government on Sunday announced that the leader, long dogged by rumours of ill health, had been hospitalised, without giving details.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/uzbek-president-islam-karimov-intensive-care-160829170052612.html

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Or he's dead according to some tweets. Either way, I think there's going to be a huge power vacuum there in the next couple days.

[msongs]

1. putin nt

[forest444]

2. Ostentatious, larcenous, lascivious, and despotic.

Trump's model of good governance, no doubt.

[Warpy]

3. I think you're right

His rule has been iron fisted for so long that people aren't going to know what to do without him. Guys like that often don't leave clear succession plans, they don't think they're ever going to die.

After the inevitable squabble for the top of the political dungheap, I hope they manage an improvement. They're overdue.

[sharp_stick]

4. wikipedia has him down as dead already

but I'm not sure how good the source of that is "Fergana News".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_Karimov

[Judi Lynn]

5. Looks as if his belief he'd die peacefully in his sleep before his conscience caught up, collapsed.

Before it was learned this U.S. ally, under Bush, actually has boiled political prisoners alive, I never knew anyone would even consider doing that.

After learning about it, it was staggering to know George W. Bush supported this man and his practices in our names.

[cactusfractal]

6. The guy who boils his enemies in oil?

Good.

I hope he's in agony and takes a long time to die.

[Blue_Tires]

7. The question is does Putin himself decide to fill that vacuum?

[left-of-center2012]

8. ... Questions Arise on Succession

With no son or obvious successor, the announcement that Mr. Karimov, 78, was gravely ill immediately focused attention on who might succeed him.

Mr. Karimov’s wife, Tatyana Karimova, and Rustam Inoyatov, the head of the secret police, are expected to be hugely influential in the choice of a successor, but are unlikely to take such a public role themselves.

Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoev, seen as a Kremlin ally, is a more likely consensus candidate within a small ruling circle, as is Rustam Azimov, a deputy prime minister and finance minister.

Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world/asia/uzbekistan-president-islam-karimov.html

[Feeling the Bern]

9. Good riddance, asshole. I hope there is a Hell and you burn there, despotic piece of rat filth