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Did you see the IMU shootout in Jalalabad? No, not the Jalalabad that hasn’t seen an IMU militant since 2001. I mean the one in Kyrgyzstan.
The press secretary of Kyrgyzstan’s Jalal-Abad regional administration says five armed individuals killed by Kyrgyz national security troops were members of the banned extremist group the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan […]

In early May, Ferghana.ru reported that Alisher Boikuziev, of Zafarabad, Tajikistan, was gunned down and beaten by Uzbek border security agents in Syr Darya Oblast in Uzbekistan.
Now less than a month later, Uzbek border security agents have killed a Kyrgyz citizen and unilaterally set up a border post along the main road of Jalalabad […]

Anyone else know what’s going on with the eleven Hizb-ut Tahrir followers charged with ” igniting ethnic and racial hatred and attempting to oust the Tajik government.”
I mean, goodness that can apply to… almost anyone. And it doesn’t make much sense, at least as I understand HuT (that is: it aims to move beyond ethnic […]

There is a curious RFR/RL report about families fleeing Tajikistan so they can live in an Islamic country. That’s right: they’re moving to Afghanistan:
Afghan investigators told RFE/RL that the Tajiks said they are not followers of any political group or religious movement but simply wanted to live in a “Muslim country.”
Weird. It brought to mind […]

I don’t have $130 to spend on it, but John Heathershaw’s new book, Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order certainly looks interesting. From the abstract:
Post-Soviet, post-conflict Tajikistan is an under-studied and poorly understood case in conflict studies literature. Since 2000, this Central Asian state has seen major political violence […]

Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan took part in military exercises in Tajikistan recently.
About 1,000 soldiers took part in the exercises, 50 kms (30 miles) south of the Tajik capital Dushanbe under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Looking at that list of countries, Uzbekistan is conspicuously absent. However, relations between Uzbekistan and […]

Ilan Greenberg has an interesting article in Slate about Tajikistan’s looming collapse:
Many returnees told me they intend to go back to Russia—they had no alternative—but several already had disturbing stories. Among the dozen or so men in Vosay, half said they had been ripped off by their bosses in Russia. They received only a fraction […]