Hardline Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov has died leaving no obvious successor and legacy of repression

Islam Karimov was born on January 30 1938 in Samarkand and has run the central Asian country for more than a quarter-century. He made his way through the Communist party in the-then USSR, and his reign has been marked by long presidential terms, crushing electoral victories, and claimed mass participation at each election. Since the creation…