Explainer: Violence in Tajikistan’s Badakhshan Province a Legacy of the Civil War | Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Government forces have recently clashed with armed groups in Tajikistan’s remote Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, a mountainous region along the Afghan border that has existed largely outside Dushanbe’s control for decades. RFE/RL’s Robert Coalson takes a quick look at Badakhshan and the wider impact of unrest there.
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