Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan denounces deployment of troops near the border New conflicts

The Kyrgyz border guard service has reported that Tajik troops have broken the ceasefire following incidents of water conflict.

Kyrgyzstan accuses neighboring Tajikistan of building troops and military equipment near its border conflicts de facto near the Tajik enclave of Vorukh, it killed at least 41 people and injured dozens.

The Kyrgyz border guard service also said on Saturday that Tajik troops had fired at Kyrgyz vehicles around a Kyrgyz village.

Tajikistan did not comment, although a Tajik security source said Dushanbe was holding a ceasefire and an agreement to delay troops.

At the same time, talks continued to resolve the conflict between the two Central Asian nations, both of which are Russian allies.

The presidents of the two countries spoke on the phone on Saturday to discuss further steps, their offices reported.

“By violating bilateral agreements to withdraw soldiers to their bases, the other side continues to carry more soldiers and heavy hardware to the Kyrgyz border,” the Kyrgyz border guard service said in a note.

A Kyrgyz man, made up of thousands of people, was cut off from the rest of the country by border guards because Tajik troops were blocking the road that runs through the disputed territory.

The issue of water

Clashes have broken out this week on the border between Tajikistan’s Sughd province and southern Kyrgyzstan’s Batken province over a dispute over a reservoir and pump claimed by both sides on the Isfara River.

Citizens on the opposite side threw stones at each other and border guards joined them with a weapon, mortar and, according to Kyrgyz border guards, a Tajik attack helicopter.

At least one Kyrgyz border station and several houses on the Kyrgyz side were blown up, and Tajikistan denounced the damage caused by the explosion of a bridge.

Kyrgyz authorities reported that 33 people were killed, except for three civilians and 132 injured.

Local government sources in Tajikistan say eight people have been killed in his favor, including four border guards.

On Saturday, the AFP news agency said its Batken correspondent was unable to reach the conflict zone because surgeon men were throwing stones back at a road set up by Kyrgyz soldiers between the town of Min-Bula and the town of Isfana.

Also on Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, outside government offices and asked the government to give them weapons to fight on the border.

A document released by the National Security Council through the Kyrgyzstan’s Sadyr Japarov office said the protesters ’demands were impossible to comply with“ because it has consequences ”.

Demonstrators gather in Bishkek to demand the surrender of weapons to volunteers willing to help residents of the southern Batken province of Kyrgyzstan [Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters]

The border disagreements between the three countries that share the fertile Fergana Valley (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) stem from the restrictions imposed during the Soviet era.

The intricate and twisted boundaries left many communities with limited access to their countries.

Neighbors in Uzbekistan and Russia, which maintains bases in both countries, have offered to mediate the latest conflict.