(MENAFN- AzerNews)
1. On September 14, at 7:15am, military units of the Border
Troops of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz
Republic, without any reason, began shelling the Kekh border post
of the Border troops of the State Committee for National Security
of the Republic of Tajikistan in the Vorukh Jamoat of Isfara Town,
Tajikistan. During this unprovoked act of aggression, the Kyrgyz
side used mortars, machine guns and other small arms. As a result
of the shelling, two servicemen of the armed forces of Tajikistan
were killed. At the same time, the Kyrgyz side carried out the
transfer of additional forces and heavy equipment to the border
areas. The Tajik side was forced to return fire.
2. On the same day, approximately at 2:10pm, immediately after
the announcement of the ceasefire regime, Kyrgyz military personnel
using group weapons attacked the settlements of Langar and Sari
Bozor, as well as the building of secondary school No. 47 of
Chorkuh Jamoat, as a result of which students and teachers of this
educational institution were wounded.
3. Despite the agreement on the de-escalation of the situation
and the withdrawal of additional forces, on September 16 at
04:50am, Kyrgyz military personnel began shelling the 'Dushanbe'
frontier post using heavy weapons. At the same time, military
personnel of Kyrgyzstan carried out an armed attack on the
settlements of Khojai Alo, Kummazor, Surkh, Somoniyon and Kulkand
of the city of Isfara, as well as Khistevarz and Ovchikal'acha of
Bobojon Gafurov district. In the course of massive shelling of
residential areas of the village of Chorkishlok in the city of
Isfara, the Kyrgyz side used such heavy equipment as infantry
fighting vehicles (IFV) and armored personnel carriers.
4. On that day, at about 06:30am, servicemen of the special
forces of Kyrgyzstan invaded the territory of the village of
Bogdori, Chilgazi jamoat, Isfara city and burned 16 houses of local
residents, and committed acts of depredation and looting. It should
be emphasized that during this invasion, the Kyrgyz
military entered the house of a Tajik citizen, an elderly woman
Makhmudova Munavvarakhon, and killed her with severe
cruelty .
5. During this period of time, again violating the declared
ceasefire, the Kyrgyz military began shelling the village of Khojai
Alo from the territory of the Golovnaya water distribution station.
During the shelling, they attacked civilian infrastructure
facilities and damaged the Shurob power line and the bridge in the
village of Chorkishlok. In addition, as part of this aggression,
the Kyrgyz military massively set fire to the houses of civilians
in the settlements of Bogiston and Lakon in the city of Isfara.
They Kyrgyz military fire killed five members of the same
family, including a 6-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy and a woman
in her eighth month of pregnancy in the Jamoat
Chorkuh .
6. Beginning at 07:30am, Kyrgyz military units opened fire along
the entire line of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. Thus, during the
massive shelling of the territory of Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz
military applied 20 units of heavy armored vehicles, including
tanks, armored personnel carriers and armored reconnaissance and
patrol vehicles. As a result of this massive shelling, they
destroyed the building of a secondary school and 8 houses in the
village of Bogiston in the city of Isfara, as well as houses in the
village of Somoniyon. It should be noted that as a result of mortar
shelling, the Kyrgyz side killed two elderly women -
citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan in the settlement
of Khistevarz jamoat, Bobojon Gafurov district of Tajikistan.
7. Despite the ceasefire agreement that was reached at various
levels of the military and civilian authorities of the two
countries, as well as contrary to the assurances of the President
of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov, given by him during a meeting
with the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon in
Samarkand 'on the sidelines' of the SCO Summit, on September 16, at
7:10pm, the Kyrgyz military opened fire and completely destroyed
the buildings of secondary schools No. 225 and No. 64 of the Jamoat
Chorkuh of the city of Isfara.
8. In the evening of the same day, in violation of the norms of
international humanitarian law, Kyrgyz military personnel fired
from armored vehicles at an ambulance transporting wounded
civilians in the village of Chorkishlok, Zumrad Village Council,
Isfara City, Tajikistan. As a result of this inhuman attack, five citizens of Tajikistan - an ambulance paramedic and
members of one family, including 6 and 5-year-old children were
killed .
9. On September 16, the co-chairs of the intergovernmental
commission at a meeting reached an agreement on a ceasefire from
4:00pm, mentioned in Protocol No. 41. Despite this, the Kyrgyz side
used combat helicopters and attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
Bayraktar TB2 to bombard the territory of the Republic of
Tajikistan. Thus, as a result of an UAV strike on the
building of school No. 8 of the Ovchi Kal'acha Village Council in
Bobojon Gafurov district, 6 civilians of Tajikistan died. During an
UAV strike on a mosque in the Ovchi Kal'ach Village Council, 12
civilians of Tajikistan were killed and more than 20 people,
including a seven-year-old child were wounded. At the same
time, the Kyrgyz side posts videos of UAV strikes on civilian
facilities in the open information space.
10. In the early morning of September 17, the Kyrgyz military
personnel once again violated the ceasefire regime and carried out
mortar shelling of the Chorkuh Village Council and a section of the
Chorkishlok road of the Chorkuh Village Council in the city of
Isfara.
11. At 11:10 am, servicemen of military unit 707 of the Ministry
of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan opened fire from all types of
weapons at the“Dushanbe” border outpost of the Isfara Border
Detachment. The special units troops of Kyrgyzstan fired at the
village of Somoniyon of Chorkuh Village Council in Isfara City.
12. At 11:50am, the Kyrgyz servicemen using multiple launch
rocket system (MLRS), shelled the village of Tojvaron, Lakhsh
district of Tajikistan. As a result of this attack, several
civilians were injured, including women and children, and
3 residential buildings were destroyed. It should be emphasized
that no conflict cases were recorded in this area and the
concentration of forces and means of the Kyrgyz side in this area,
taking into account the complexity of the terrain, would take more
than one week. During the day, Kyrgyz military personnel fired
three times at settlements in the border zone of the Lakhsh region
using MLRS. They attacked the School No. 15 in the village
of Tojvaron, as a result of which 3 school students were
injured.
13. In recent days, with a view to creating the image of an
“aggressor” in the face of its neighbor, the Kyrgyz side, not
shunning outright lies and insinuations, continues an information
campaign against Tajikistan, thereby escalating tension in the
border area. On September 17, in his address to the nation, the
President of Kyrgyzstan used the word“enemy” in relation to
Tajikistan.
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