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This is assignment on the BBC World Service. I'm Natalia Antalava and this is a story of a family at war.

Although, it hasn't always been that way.

He taught me how to write my bicycle. He taught me how to fish and basically the childhood was amazing.

And that's why we're very confused. Why the situation right now is unfolding like this.

Islam Karimov loves his grandfather. He's even named after him.

But the rest of the world knows President Islam Karimov as a ruthless dictator.

In the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, troops have opened fire on thousands of protesters in the city of Andejaan.

A number of Uzbekistan Western governments and human rights groups have called the former Soviet Central Asian country one of the world's most repressive nations.

A place where torture, as systematic as human rights watch says Uzbekistan is continuing to use torture in its criminal justice system.

For 25 years, President Karimov has been in charge of Uzbekistan.

A police state so press of an isolated that human rights groups often compare it to North Korea.

There is utter mayhem in Andejaan as the troops advance hundreds of men, women and children, or trying to take cover by lying flat in the streets.

Others are running through the city. Some local residents say this or soldiers chasing people into courtchards firing as they went.

In the last decade, it's been in the headlines for a massacre of civilians in 2005, for brutal torture and prisons, for children forced to pick cotton in the fields.

And more recently, for a bizarre Shakespearean and very public falling out between President Karimov and his glamorous daughter, Gulnara.

In this program, I follow up on the extraordinary downfall of Uzbekistan's once invincible first daughter and gain exclusive insight into the dysfunctional family in charge of one of the world's most brutal dictator ships.

This can't be good. I'm at immigration in Tashkent, I just flew in. I never was going through, but I've been told to step aside and wait and my passport has been taken away.

I just wonder what it is that that immigration officials saw on the screen because his eyes nearly popped out when he entered my name.

Islam Karimov doesn't do interviews and he has banned the BBC from Uzbekistan.

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