Tbilisi
This time, the clashes were not limited to the Tajik-Kyrgyz border.
On Friday, the armed forces of Tajikistan invited themselves near Batken airport, attacking various infrastructures located some 10 km inside Kyrgyz territory.
This time, the tanks immediately drew, in several places, without really taking the pretext of clashes between peasants or traders residing on both sides of this complex border inherited from the Soviet Union.
The result was particularly bloody: nearly a hundred dead on both sides and 140,000 Kyrgyz displaced in three days.
Never had the tensions between these two Central Asian republics been so deadly.
The sequence of events is far from clear.
According to the Kyrgyzstan Border Service, around 6 a.m. the Tajik side began shelling its positions in the areas of Eki-Tash, Chir-Dobo, Koum-Mazar and Orto-Boz.
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