Tajikistan’s inside ministry says 70 ‘energetic members of a terrorist group’ had been detained after lethal clashes in Gorno-Badakhshan.
At the very least eight individuals have been killed in clashes between Tajik safety forces and “anti-government militants” in a restive area bordering Afghanistan and China, in line with the nation’s inside ministry.
The ministry mentioned on Wednesday members of “organised prison teams” armed with weapons and Molotov cocktails attacked safety officers within the japanese area of Gorno-Badakhshan which has lengthy been a flashpoint of tensions.
One safety officer was killed and 13 had been significantly injured within the assault, it mentioned.
The ministry mentioned the assault got here throughout an “anti-terror operation” launched earlier on Wednesday after 200 armed individuals blocked a freeway on the border with Afghanistan to “destabilise the social and political state of affairs”.
On account of the operation, eight “militants” had been killed, 11 wounded and greater than 70 “energetic members of a terrorist group” had been detained, the ministry mentioned.
The ministry mentioned order has been restored within the province the place protesters have demanded the resignation of the provincial authorities appointed by President Emomali Rahmon.
Rahmon has been in energy since 1994, regularly consolidating energy and sidelining political rivals and opposition teams.
The operation adopted clashes final 12 months between protesters and safety forces within the provincial capital Khorog during which no less than one protester was killed by police.
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‘Deep concern’
In a joint assertion, the European Union delegation in Tajikistan and the embassies of the UK, France, Germany and the USA expressed their “deep concern about reported inner tensions and violent clashes” within the area.
They referred to as on “all events to spare no effort to de-escalate, train restraint and chorus from extreme use of drive and incitement to violence”.
The area has been rife with tensions since a five-year civil warfare broke out shortly after the Central Asian nation gained its independence with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
A linguistically and ethnically distinct area, Gorno-Badakhshan has been dwelling to rebels who opposed authorities forces in the course of the battle.
Situated within the Pamir Mountains, the sparsely populated area makes up virtually half of Tajikistan’s territory and is dwelling to only about 200,000 individuals.
Mountainous Tajikistan, the poorest former Soviet republic, shares a 1,300-kilometre (800-mile) border with Afghanistan.
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