Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Reeling From Brutal State Crackdown – Analysis

With reports of dozens killed as well as hundreds injured and detained in recent weeks, the Tajik government tried to settle a long-standing conflict in its Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) with forceful and repressive measures in a crackdown that has shocked the remote region.

In the process, Dushanbe has seemingly...