Uzbek farmers are seen through a hoe as

TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN: Uzbek farmers are seen through a hoe as they tump beds with cotton at their field outside the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, 20 May 2005. Much discontent with Uzbekistan's hardline regime has come from the nation's cotton farmers, key to the country's economy, and last week's bloody crackdown is unlikely to hold it back, say activists here in the country's agricultural heartland. AFP PHOTO / DENIS SINYAKOV (Photo credit should read DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP via Getty Images)