Kyrgyz parliamentarian proposes to reward three Kyrgyz nationals injured in the latest clash on Kyrgyz-Tajik border with Dank medal. Recall, two Tajik nationals were killed in that clash.
Discussion of the latest clash between residents of Kyrgyz and Tajik border areas in the Kyrgyz parliament has reportedly sparked vigorous debates.
Speaking at the Supreme Council (Jokorgu Kenesh) session on April 3, Ms. Karamat Orozova proposed to give the Aksai village a status of strategic object.
She also asked to reward three Kyrgyz nationals, Mirbek Zhurayev, Ulukbek Zhanykulov and Akylbek Toichiyev who were injured in the clash, with Dank medal, according to 24.kg news agency.
Besides, MP Orozova asked to strengthen border and law enforcement services.
Recall, the unrest erupted on March 13 after Kyrgyzstan restarted work on a controversial Aksai-Tamdyk road in the disputed section of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border.
Two Tajik nationals were killed and more than 30 others wounded in two days of clashes. Kyrgyzstan listed two injured on its side.
Tajik border service argues that completion of this road will lead to the stemming of a river and leave Vorukh without irrigation for its valuable apricot and walnut cash crops.
The Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border remains one of the last undefined frontiers in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Despite repeated incidents over the past several years, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan remain unable to settle their Fergana valley border.
Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have been unable to agree on the location of the border they inherited when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. As the population in the dense Ferghana Valley grows, it has become increasingly difficult to demarcate the contested sections, where valuable agricultural land often lies.
The area at the focus of unrest among residents of border areas of the two countries lies on the jagged frontier where the east of Tajikistan’s Sughd province and Kyrgyzstan’s Batken region meet. Skirmishes have sparked between residents of Isfara (Tajikistan) and Batken (Kyrgyzstan) districts along the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border. Trouble periodically sparks around the Tajik exclave of Vorukh.
