The tower States to suppress anti-government local militants involved in tobacco

The tower States to suppress anti-government local militants involved in tobacco smuggling

Tobacco Tajikistan government forces July 24 on the southeastern city of Khorog, the rebels launched a massive cleaning up tobacco elicited strong concern. According to reports, the day of military operations, including government soldiers, including 42 deaths, the BBC and other Western media claimed that about 200 people died in action, including 100 combatants and 100 local people. Keni Ya Jeff, senior researcher of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of the Far East, the military action is likely to exacerbate the tensions in the region.

According to Russia’s “view report” on the 25th, the Tajikistan National Security Council and the Ministry of the Interior on July 24 issued a statement, said 30 militants were killed, 40 people were arrested in the first day of operation, 8 of whom Afghanistan people, and confiscated over 100 weapons. Tower army of 12 people were killed and 23 wounded civilians were no casualties.

The statement also said that military operations aimed at “weakening the local armed forces and hunt the local rebel leader Yi Yemu do Primakov. On the 21st of this month, Major General Nazarov of Tajikistan’s National Security Council way back from the field visits were killed, the tower security sector Aiye Mu Do Primakov is an important criminal suspects. The statement also said that the Aiye Mu Do Primakov has been engaged in drug, tobacco and gem smuggling, and organized illegal armed.According to the latest reports, Ai Yemu do Primakov had fled to neighboring Afghanistan, one of his sons were killed in the fighting.

Some Russian scholars believe that the operation of the tower States may have, including political factors. The Keni Ya Jeff said, Khorog, Tajikistan Gorno – Badakhshan Autonomous Prefecture, located in the tower Dushanbe, the capital 520 kilometers southeast of the border with Afghanistan, Russian Academy of Sciences Far East Research Institute Senior Fellow, ethnic composition and the tower Other regional differences. For a long time the government of its paid little attention to the discontent of the local people. The day before the military action, Khorog has been the outbreak of the procession of the large-scale protest against the Government.

As of press time, sources said, the tower President Lachmon in a telephone conversation with the Gorno – Badakhshan governor of the state, has demanded an end to military operations in the region.