‘Criminal leader’ killed in Tajikistan’s east after clashes: police
According to police, a foe of Tajikistan’s authoritarian leadership was slain in the restive east of the ex-Soviet republic after protests caused deadly skirmishes between state forces and local population in the region bordering Afghanistan and China. Mamadbokir Mamadbokirov was killed “as a result of internal clashes of criminal groups”, according to an interior ministry statement carried … Read more