DUSHANBE, December 14, Asia-Plus — A memorial to Kazakh servicemen who died in Tajikistan during the civil war (1992-1995) will be officially opened in the Dusti (Friendship) Park in Dushanbe on December 15.
According to the Kazakh Embassy in Dushanbe, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, senior representatives from a number of Tajik ministries and organizations, as well as Kazakh delegation, comprising Deputy Foreign Minister Nurlan Yermekbayev, Deputy Commander of Interior Troops Ruslan Zhasylykov, and Deputy Defense official Mikhail Nosonovsky Ministry are expected to attend the memorial-opening ceremony.
Kazakh battalion numbering 100 servicemen had been deployed in Tajikistan in the 1990s, from December 1992 to August 1999. Kazakh servicemen were mainly deployed on the Tajik-Afghan border in GBAO’s Darvoz district. 50 Kazakh servicemen died in actions in Tajikistan.
