There were numerous causes of civil war in Tajikistan, such as economic hardship, communal way of life of Tajiki people and their high religiosity. Under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's 'Perestroika' policies, a Muslim-Democratic movement began to emerge in Tajiki SSR.

In September 2015, the government banned the Islamic Revival Party and imprisoned many of its members. The remaining opposition, inde-pendent media and civil society have been silenced since.

Jun 23, 2017 · Tajikistan’s civil war dragged on for over five years, leading to huge casualties. Over its course, between 35,000 and 157,000 people were killed, 37,500 households were destroyed.

In 1992, Tajikistan was engulfed in civil war, with different interest groups vying for control of the state. But by 1997, a power-sharing agreement had been signed. This publication takes an in-depth look at what was an exceptionally well-coordinated peace process - involving local civil society, the international community, and a newly ...

June 27 marked the 24th anniversary of the signing of the UN-brokered Tajik Peace Accord that ended a five-year civil war between Tajikistan's secular government and a coalition of opposition...

Jun 1, 2017 · Tajikistan is at peace; the civil war ended in 1997. President Emomali Rahmon’s supporters regularly boast of his unrivaled role in ending the conflict and bringing security and prosperity to...

Nov 2, 2010 · Rather than look at the outlines of the civil war in Tajikistan, this article will analyze the background to the conflict and will try to explain the rise of localism and ethnonationalism and the nature of their impact on the prospects for resolution of the conflict.

Jun 26, 2017 · It's 20 years since Tajikistan's 5-year-long civil war came to an end, having claimed between 50,0000 and 100,000 lives. What was it about and what was its legacy?

Jun 23, 2017 · Knowledgeable authors have written about how the war started as a result of rival demonstrations in Dushanbe in spring 1992; of how an unlikely coalition of democratic, Islamic, and local ethnic...

While the most devastating phase of the civil war in Tajikistan was fought in the rural south, the capital managed to avoid the worst of the conflict (there were assassinations, kidnappings, theft, and so on, in the capital, but nothing on the scale of what was happening in the south).

Apr 30, 2012 · In terms of internal and external security, Tajikistan has been among the most problematic countries in Central Asia. It is the only state in the region to have gone through a protracted civil war (1992-1997), which, according to various estimates, killed between 23,500 and 100,000 people (perhaps even more) and left the economy in ruins.

May 12, 2020 · In Tajikistan, the Soviets used inherent Tajik ideological, regional, and ethnic conflicts to move their affairs forward. In 1992, after enduring Soviet imposition for seventy years, the Tajiks reversed the process and toppled the Soviet power structure in Tajikistan.

The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan: Nationalism, Islamism and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Space. Lanham et al.: Lexington Books, 2016, 401 pp., ISBN 978-1-4985-3278-5. The book is an exceptional and very important study on the little-known Tajik civil war of the 1990s. The book contributes to the field of conflict studies with

Aug 20, 2021 · The Tajik civil war in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union caused the loss of tens of thousands of lives and the displacement of over a million Tajiks, leaving a divided nation and bitter ...

Nov 1, 1995 · As many as 50,000 people have died and thousands more have been wounded and made homeless by the civil war that has raged in Tajikistan, the poorest of the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. It was the bloodiest conflict in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, until Chechnya.

In the 10th century, the Turks separated the Tajiks, a CentralAsian community, from their Iranian kinfolk. The Tajiks adopted theHanafi faith and, alongside eth...

Sep 20, 2021 · Tajikistan experienced a violent internal conflict known as the Tajik Civil War between 1992 and 1997, right after gaining its independence. The civil war dragged on for five years and ended in the complete devastation of many areas, with widespread human casualties and physical damage.

May 4, 2017 · In 1992, shortly after the collapse of the USSR, a civil war erupted in Tajikistan, a Central Asian country bordering Afghanistan. Over 30,000 people lost their lives during the five years of...

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The story of the Tajik civil war is extremely complex, and difficult to describe in brief. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, political battles for control of the new independent Republic of...