Clones

President Ilham Aliev, of Azerbaijan, met with Chimpie in the White House on Friday. Bush extolled the country as "a modern Muslim country that is able to provide for its citizens, that understands that democracy is the wave of the future." Wow! Pretty high praise for a man who has a very controversial record:

Aliev succeeded his father, Heydar A. Aliev, in October 2003, in an election that also drew sharp criticism from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for ballot-stuffing and a falsified vote count.

The annual State Department human-rights report issued in March said of Azerbaijan:

“the government's human rights record remained poor, and it continued to commit numerous abuses”.....also citing “torture and beating of persons in custody, leading to four deaths,” as well as arbitrary arrest and detention, particularly of political opponents, harsh prison conditions and corruption in the judiciary.

Getting a little confused here, is this report about Aliev or Bush? They seem so similar.
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