Andijan (also Andijon, Andizhan, Andizan) is a city of western Uzbekistan. Population 303,000. It is the capital of the province of the same name (Andijon Wiloyati).
Andijon City is located in the eastern part of Uzbekistan and is part of the Ferghana Valley.
Andijon is next door to Kyrgyzstan’s Osh and Jalalabad provinces where the successful March 2005 demonstrations against the Kyrgyz president, Asker Akayev, culminated in his flight to Moscow.
Kyrgyzstan, interim President Kurmanbek Bakiev on 14 May agreed that Islamic militants are responsible for the unrest in Andijon.
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