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The last Ismaili khalifa in the mountains of Tajikistan 2023-05-15

Khalifa Muzaffar Davlatmirov is one of dozens of prominent civic figures locked up or killed by Tajik authorities since May 2022
Source: 
www.opendemocracy.net

It’s a year since Muzaffar Davlatmirov, a respected religious leader in the Gorno-Badakhshan region in Tajikistan, witnessed Tajik state forces brutalise his community as part of a long-running attempt to suppress the area’s religion, culture and anti-government protests.

Now, the 59-year-old Ismaili khalifa (cleric) from the regional capital, Khorog, is in prison, as are hundreds of other locals.

Tajikistan Struggles to Integrate Ismaili Pamiris Living Along Afghan Border 2020-04-30

Gorno-Badakhshan (Source: RFE/RL
Source: 
jamestown.org EURASIA DAILY MONITOR Volume: 17 Issue: 60

Eastern Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region—comprising more than half of the historical mountainous region of Badakhshan, which it shares with northern Afghanistan—is one of the most isolated, impoverished and unsettled places in Central Asia. Gorno-Badakhshan was a center of resistance to Dushanbe during the civil war in the 1990s, and the central government has since worked hard to try to bring it to heel, alternating threats of a military crackdown with expanded economic assistance (see EDM, October 18, 2018; Ozodandishon, October 23, 2018).


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