Violent Clashes at the Troublesome Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Border
Advertisement In late March, while prematurelybragging about resolving Kyrgyzstan’s outstanding border uncertainties with Uzbekistan via land swaps, the chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS or GKNB) Kamchybek Tashiev proposed land swaps as a possible solution to Kyrgyzstan’s similarly thorny border issues with Tajikistan. A month later, the area Tashiev had suggested swapping for — Vorukh — was the trigger for the worst fighting the Kyrgyz-Tajik border has seen in recent years. The recent clashes fit into an worsening pattern in which the unsettled ...
Source: thediplomat.com