Chapter Twenty-Eight
Like someone who climbs a ladder
I stretch my arms into the future.
Like a man on skis
so as not to fall I slide,
slide into the distance.
My future is the air,
my past — the ice.
I’ve missed my brother, my brother....
-Belgi
That Zainiddin was attempting to be cunning is also made clear by the following interview that he gave to one of the foreign radio channels at the time when he was press secretary of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and known by the name of Abdurahman Mansur. In it he comments on the killings in Namangan and subsequent events.
Question: The men who have been convicted in Namangan and Tashkent, are they from your movement, or have they no connection with you?
AM: The men who have been arrested and convicted now, and the ones before th
