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Bibliothèque The April 2021 Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Dispute: Historical and Causal Context

The April 2021 Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Dispute: Historical and Causal Context

The April 2021 Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Dispute: Historical and Causal Context

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Juin 2021
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8
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In late April, 2021, deadly cross-border violence resulted in the deaths of 36 Kyrgyz and 19 Tajik citizens.1 To say that the Kyrgyz-Tajik border is complicated would be an understatement. The Soviet collapse in 1991 transformed internal and often overlooked administrative boundaries into suddenly salient and internationally recognized state borders. Villages, farmland, pasture, and infrastructure once shared with little afterthought during the Soviet period today straddle sovereign nations. Exclaves make cross-border travel, commerce, and politics even more complicated. Three Uzbek and two Tajik exclaves are within Kyrgyzstan and some of the worst violence during the April 2021 conflict occurred along the road that leads to the Tajik exclave, Vorukh.

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Eric McGlinchey

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